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an abundant source
a baseball fanatic who is a mine of fascinating trivia about the game
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Daniel Moore, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
Canaries were used in the U.K.’s coal mines to detect toxic air until the 1980s.
—Ludmila Praslova, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Tourmaline is primarily mined in Brazil, but it can also be found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique, as well as in the U.S. in California and Maine.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
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Tester has been scrambling to contain the fallout from layoffs announced in September of about 700 workers at a palladium and platinum mine.
—Daniel Moore, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
Canaries were used in the U.K.’s coal mines to detect toxic air until the 1980s.
—Ludmila Praslova, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Verb
The eight-part series tells the stories of five people whose worlds collide when a bomb is detonated at a peaceful Māori protest against a license to mine a sacred site.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Tourmaline is primarily mined in Brazil, but it can also be found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique, as well as in the U.S. in California and Maine.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
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Data Storage At the foundation of any robust CDP is a centralized repository for all customer data, both structured and unstructured.Greg Kihlstrom, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Taken together, the research of the Pickfords, plus their share of the Risdon Beazley archive, may constitute one of the most valuable repositories of treasure information in the world.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Barreling headlong into the Ukrainian army—the 61st Mechanized Brigade and 17th Tank Brigade, apparently—the Russian marines met a wall of steel and explosives.David Axe, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Instead, they get hemmed in and end up stuck in the car like ducks, saved only by an inspired move from Daryl: shooting up a couple walkers with extra super-serum, turning them into walking explosives to disable the other walkers.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2024
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In the run-up to the election, Trump has regularly attacked the media.Kristen Holmes, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Videos later emerged showing the friends physically attacking Robinson, but the FBI never charged anyone or made any arrests in the case.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Colorado authorities have identified the person that died in a former gold mine that is now a tourist attraction.Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
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Investigators were trying to figure out Friday what led an elevator to malfunction at a former Colorado gold mine, killing one person, injuring four others and leaving 12 people trapped for hours at the bottom of the tourist attraction 1,000 feet (305 meters) beneath the surface.Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
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Mark’s school has a bomb shelter that can hold only a certain number of kids; hence the hybrid model.Katya Soldak, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Newspeak, in 1984, destroys with the same ferocious efficiency that tanks and bombs do.Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Previously, scientists could access a treasure trove of data shared through Twitter’s application programming interface, enabling researchers like Pierri to routinely collect millions of tweets a day for their studies.ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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Faint lighting and soft music stage a romantic scene further enhanced by house negronis and a treasure trove of international liquors.Kayla Stewart, Saveur, 30 Oct. 2024
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Wary of booby traps and with evening closing in, the troops did not enter the building until the next day.James Mackenzie, Reuters, 18 Oct. 2024
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Unfortunately, though, one open window negates all the padlocks, bolts, and booby traps money can buy.Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2019
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The large nonvenomous constrictor captures its prey by ambushing it before coiling around it.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Guerrillas ambushed enemies, one former rebel told me, and finished them off with axes or knives before stealing their weapons.Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Mine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mine. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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