jin
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Pollard and Liu propose these two alloys, which could have been prefabricated as ingots and distributed to bronze foundries, are jin and xi.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 9, 2022
“There is no convincing analytical evidence to support their claim that jin and xi are not pure copper and tin, but pre-prepared alloys,” he says.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 9, 2022
The dish, called khao kan jin and often eaten as a snack in northern Thailand, suggests a blood sausage with the ratios radically recalibrated, more rice than pork.
From New York Times • May 10, 2018
The wiry team captain and a first baseman, he carries himself like a yakyu jin, someone who devotes himself to baseball, not unlike a devotee of the martial arts.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2011
O pāshno covva mīri deari se ta jin sā ta plasser, te kāmer, te masher foki.
From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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