salt mines
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Carpenter toiled for years in the Disney-pop salt mines before breaking out in 2022 with the comparatively frisky “Emails I Can’t Send.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Two weeks earlier, Prigozhin posted a photo of him and his fighters in what he said was one of Soledar's salt mines.
From Reuters • May 20, 2023
Ruslan, 45, was working 1,000 feet below the earth in one of Europe’s largest salt mines when the Russians launched their full-scale invasion.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023
They fought battles to maintain possession of the salt mines, she learned—but ate almost no meat.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023
Other stolen pieces were hidden in salt mines, abandoned factories, castle ruins, and the basements of museums.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
