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  • present participle of mine.
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mining

[mahy-ning] / ˈmaɪ nɪŋ /


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Tyler, whose real name was Gaynor Hopkins, was born and raised in a traditional coal mining village northwest of Swansea, and divided her time between south Wales and Portugal in recent years.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

Now, a parade of mining companies hoping to ride the boom are trying to grab attention by wrapping themselves in red, white and blue.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

This is due to heavy rains in Chile that temporarily halted mining.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

"We had been mining there for about two years," he said, "but we had no luck, so we closed the mine for a year. We had started another mine right next to it."

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Akiko was in charge of the mining station, which meant she was responsible for the poison tide.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

Nowhere for me, in these extensive minings and siftings.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

He had no genius for the tactics of intrigue; your reconnoiterings, and marchings, and countermarchings, sappings, and minings, assaults, sometimes surrenders, and sometimes repulses.

From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

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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