natural resource

Example Sentences

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“We’re integrated in the global economy like everyone else is,” said Brett Watson, associate professor of applied and natural resource economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Beijing is also targeting the lunar South Pole, not least for its rich natural resource potential.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

“Groundwater will become the most important natural resource in the world’s drying regions. We need to carefully protect it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

And in 2009, the new constitution even recognized “ancestral coca as cultural patrimony, a renewable natural resource of Bolivia’s biodiversity, and as a factor of social cohesion.”

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2025

I was simply a material, a natural resource to be used.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison