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as in repositories
an abundant source a baseball fanatic who is a mine of fascinating trivia about the game
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as in explosives
a usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed the soldiers were careful to disarm any mines they found in their path
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2026 Warships, an ongoing US blockade, and Iranian mines scattered in the sea now threaten the waters around the islands of Hormuz and Qeshm, placing communities long shaped by trade and migration at the center of a global crisis. —Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026 Once the idea takes hold that mines might be there, no ship wants to pass. —Desiree Adib, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026 Just as the story mines humor from the collision of old-fashioned ways with a modern frankness, Paul’s score combines the appeal of jaunty golden-age sounds with a freshness that feels present day. —Naveen Kumar, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026 The rollbacks included minimum wage requirements for home healthcare workers and people with disabilities, and rules governing exposure to harmful substances and safety procedures at mines. —Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026 The rollbacks included minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities, and rules governing exposure to harmful substances and safety procedures at mines. —Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026 There is also a significant risk from sea mines, which has made insuring vessels for passage through the Strait nearly impossible. —Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026 They are meant to be fast, versatile vessels that can dart into shallow, near-shore waters to detect and destroy mines, hunt and hassle submarines, and place special forces ashore. —Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026 And even if credible veracity comes and goes, Lindsay-Abaire mines them for plenty of laughs, including a couple of total howlers. —Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2026 The film at least mines some charm from a fender-bender as a meet-cute. —Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026 The Trumps’ first windfall since my August tally occurred through American Bitcoin, a company that mines new bitcoin with the intent to hoard it. —David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026 Bitcoin mining currently provides a trickling inflow of new tokens, but will eventually come to a halt when someone mines the 21 millionth coin. —Jason Phillips, Ascend Agency, 30 Jan. 2026 The art deftly brings these areas to life in tandem with gameplay that mines the concept's creative potential. —PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025 China mines the vast majority of rare earths and many of the critical minerals, but its strongest chokehold is the refining, where China dominates with a 90% global market share, including 99% for some. —Jordan Blum, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025 The country also mines about half of the world’s lithium, a mineral critical to the production of electric vehicle batteries. —John Liu, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
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The region is saturated with mines, fortifications, anti-drone nets, and thoroughly depopulated amid the fiercest fighting in Europe since World War II. —Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2026 Warships, an ongoing US blockade, and Iranian mines scattered in the sea now threaten the waters around the islands of Hormuz and Qeshm, placing communities long shaped by trade and migration at the center of a global crisis. —Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026 Once the idea takes hold that mines might be there, no ship wants to pass. —Desiree Adib, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026 Just as the story mines humor from the collision of old-fashioned ways with a modern frankness, Paul’s score combines the appeal of jaunty golden-age sounds with a freshness that feels present day. —Naveen Kumar, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026 The rollbacks included minimum wage requirements for home healthcare workers and people with disabilities, and rules governing exposure to harmful substances and safety procedures at mines. —Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026 The rollbacks included minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities, and rules governing exposure to harmful substances and safety procedures at mines. —Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026 There is also a significant risk from sea mines, which has made insuring vessels for passage through the Strait nearly impossible. —Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026 They are meant to be fast, versatile vessels that can dart into shallow, near-shore waters to detect and destroy mines, hunt and hassle submarines, and place special forces ashore. —Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
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And even if credible veracity comes and goes, Lindsay-Abaire mines them for plenty of laughs. —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026 And even if credible veracity comes and goes, Lindsay-Abaire mines them for plenty of laughs, including a couple of total howlers. —Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2026 The film at least mines some charm from a fender-bender as a meet-cute. —Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026 The Trumps’ first windfall since my August tally occurred through American Bitcoin, a company that mines new bitcoin with the intent to hoard it. —David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2026 Bitcoin mining currently provides a trickling inflow of new tokens, but will eventually come to a halt when someone mines the 21 millionth coin. —Jason Phillips, Ascend Agency, 30 Jan. 2026 The art deftly brings these areas to life in tandem with gameplay that mines the concept's creative potential. —PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025 China mines the vast majority of rare earths and many of the critical minerals, but its strongest chokehold is the refining, where China dominates with a 90% global market share, including 99% for some. —Jordan Blum, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025 The country also mines about half of the world’s lithium, a mineral critical to the production of electric vehicle batteries. —John Liu, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mines
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The scores offer one of the most concentrated public repositories of college athlete feedback.— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
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Rather like Indian gurus in nineteen-sixties hippie culture, the Jews were assumed to be repositories of every kind of mystical and human elevation.— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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Tighter oversight of explosives The task force also called for tighter controls on the importation and regulation of fireworks and explosive materials.— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 28 Jan. 2026
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Both regions include many of Sudan’s oil fields and gold mines.— Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
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Both regions include many of Sudan’s oil fields and gold mines.— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
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Shamim Mafi is charged in a federal complaint with brokering the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses and millions of rounds of ammunition manufactured by Iran and sold to Sudan.— Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026
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Nuclear energy could also be a step toward building nuclear bombs.— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
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The man attacks the woman with the hammer multiple times before stepping over her unmoving body and walking away out of the frame of the camera.— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2026
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She was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa — an eye disease that causes vision loss — and lupus, a disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s healthy tissues and organs instead of fighting germs, according to court records.— Chase Jordan April 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2026
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Class and society constrain all, and Age of Innocence traps its characters in their gauzy and ornate world.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
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Developed by a team of scientists from the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF), the new filter reportedly traps the fibers shed during everyday laundry.— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
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