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mill

noun as in factory

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verb as in grind

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The soldiers had been on a high-visibility patrol near the corner of 17th and I streets, an area where many office workers mill around at lunchtime.

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The Riveras grew up on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras, where both their parents worked at a sugar mill.

Inside a sealed steel container called a ball mill, small pieces of sodium metal are ground together with Teflon.

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Stegra is building a new steel mill it says will produce steel using technology that gives off 95 percent less CO2 emissions than traditional methods.

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Still, on a recent Friday, day laborers milled around even as it began to drizzle again.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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