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But if we are to experience a revival of the studia humanitatis—even as machine “intelligence” threatens to strip-mine the whole human archive—it will come through late-modern doubt and critique and from a new romanticism too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

If making modern batteries requires us to strip-mine the ocean for ingredients, shouldn’t science assess in advance what toll that might take on an ecosystem we just found out about?

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

The Steelers’ refusal to strip-mine the roster and start over is now paying off.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2020

NSO Group is an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm known for developing software that can take control of a cell phone and strip-mine it for data.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 9, 2019

Strip-mine planting is better than none at all, but such soil as is left after a strip-mine operation is hardly the best.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association