slag
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At the same time, industry generates vast quantities of silicon-rich waste, including coal ash residue, red mud, mine tailings, concrete debris, waste glass, and metallurgical slag.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Former Ulster wing Trimble said: "They are so bad we actually feel sorry for them, we don't even slag them. Let's do them a favour and slag them."
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Copper, steel, aluminum and precious metals can be recovered, but rare-earth metals typically fuse with other byproducts in waste called slag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Nearby, excavators found iron slag - some of it fused to the furnace wall - hinting at advanced metalworking techniques.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
Smithy and Mara were busy sorting the metal slag that they would have to leave behind and the tools they could pack onto the camels.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Lieberstein previously worked on "The Office" as one of its producers and as Toby, the bland HR representative everyone slagged off on.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023
Executives who didn’t take her calls risked being slagged on Deadline.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
Anyway, you’ll be happy to hear, I fought through my misgivings and slagged the performance—but it struck me that if I was thinking about these questions in this context, these questions have permeated very deep.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2018
Bono got slagged off for trying to give Liam the “Bono chat”, where he explains the mysteries of rock stardom to young up-and-comers: “Wish I’d had an out-of-body experience instead. Not in my Top 50.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2017
Hardly big enough so a cat could slip through, and under it is this big pile of coal slagged up against the foundation wall.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
He replied: "No, we read Vanity Fair - they're slagging each other off in the pages... You don't need to go for lunch with those people."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
“This is not about slagging anyone off in this TV series at all,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2021
Fearn doesn’t share the inclination, saying, “I’ve never really been into slagging bands off. It’s just not my thing.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2021
YouTube videos were dedicated to slagging her off.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2020
Gary Drake and Ross Wilcox might’ve been slagging me off, but the fainter the voices became, the less I wanted to go back.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
