- possessive of I.
mine
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So here we go, I've ranked mine below - you can have your say in the comments, too.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg named mine “Dash,” and whenever I open Muse, the cute little fella blinks at me as he swivels his necklike body part from right to left.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Escondida mine in northern Chile yearly digs up around five percent of the world's copper, which is essential for the energy transition, artificial intelligence and defense.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
There are more needs being met than just mine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
A sour smell of privy smoke rose off his hair, and probably mine.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said a ship hit naval mines and sank while passing through what they called an "unauthorised" route in the Strait of Hormuz.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
All year, food supplies have dwindled as mines and drones made the road increasingly impassable, cutting contact between Oleshky and the outside world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
A joint Seoul-United Nations Command investigation concluded the blast was caused by North Korean mines laid on the South Korean side of the border.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Officials in Seoul said the mines were almost certainly deliberately planted by North Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Something of a polymath, he was a Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford, physician to Edward VI and to Queen Mary, and sometime general surveyor of mines and money for the Crown.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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Gold-rich areas such as those in River Nile state lie along porous borders in terrain historically associated with cross-border smuggling routes, with artisanally mined gold potentially feeding into those channels.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The black market for irregularly mined gold represents millions of dollars that would have otherwise ended up in the Ivorian state's coffers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Before the Rand Refinery can handle the metal, it needs to ensure it is mined in a responsible manner, including without damaging the environment, mistreating workers or funding corrupt officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
That could reduce dependence on newly mined resources, lower the environmental footprint of materials production, and strengthen domestic supplies of critical minerals and rare earth elements.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Many Cambodians are trekking on foot to the north, crossing dangerous mined fields and Khmer Rouge control zones, with little food and water, to go to Thailand.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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That deal was officially "aimed at assisting the authorities in securing mining sites, improving tax collection mechanisms and curbing cross-border smuggling of minerals", the group's report added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
That was the case with hydraulic mining in the West, which involved aiming a torrent of water under high pressure to blast away soil and boulders to expose the underlying gold veins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
With mining capacity continuing to ramp up, expectations for inventory accumulation are strong, it adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Bitcoin mining involves running programs to solve complex mathematical equations to generate new units of the digital currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
All the harm done to the ocean wilderness had started right there, by that deep-sea mining robot.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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