- present participle of mine.
mining
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In one of the series’ most terrifying scenes, Pennywise comes to life inside a black-and-white photo of Derry 200 years ago when it was a mining town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"We expect to see many public miners continue winding down their Bitcoin mining hardware in the coming quarters," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Deep-sea mining seeks to tap previously untouched seabed deposits of a range of commodities, including cobalt and nickel, but the fledgling industry has long been stalled by environmental concerns.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Bitcoin mining companies invested large sums on giant banks of powerful computers as the price of Bitcoin rocketed in recent years.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
And when his parents were killed in a mining accident, the mate went to live in the grove with her, learning to nurse the tender shoots into towering giants with rustling fan-shaped leaves.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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On Capitol Hill, the Reagan Administration was engaged in some belated fence mending with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Provided the differences amount not to an insolent opposition of Laws, and Government, or Religion established, as to the essentials of them, such motions and minings are intolerable.
From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by King of England Charles I
And the open goings-forth of it, still more the secret minings and mole-courses of it, were into all places.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
Meantime a cough, the herald of consumption, tormented him, and "the slow minings of the hectic fire" within began to manifest themselves more visibly in days and nights of feverish excitement.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831 by Various
Nothing would be done on either side but stick-in-the-mud warfare and those trench-raids and minings which had no object except "to keep up the spirit of the men."
From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
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