nickel
Example Sentences
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I would have liked a root beer along about then, but I didn’t have a nickel to buy one.
From Literature
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He wondered if the old man would accept two dimes and a nickel instead.
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Australia is the leading producer of iron ore, gold, zinc, nickel, cobalt, and lithium, whilst Indonesia accounts for half of the global production of nickel.
From BBC
“I never inherited a nickel, but I inherited a love of the natural world—and a respect,” Bamberger told National Geographic in 2008.
Raw materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt are essential for electronic goods such as batteries and wind turbines and needed for the EU's green transition.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.