- present participle of mine.
mining
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The most frightening aspect of mining engagement — the part we might not always think about — is how the tools and algorithms designed for it must change as users age out of different platforms.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
A spokesperson for Wrexham council said investigations indicated deposits came from mining activity.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
And you couldn’t invest in it—you could buy coins and bars, or mining stocks—but that was the only way you could do it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Authorities widened the crackdown in 2021, declaring cryptocurrency transactions illegal and restricting mining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
They groaned from the tremendous effort, but together, they slowly muscled the massive thing into position, and aimed it directly at the mining robot.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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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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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
Nowhere for me, in these extensive minings and siftings.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
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
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