Example Sentences

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"Many of the affected areas are mining towns with highly mobile and transient populations. This mobility increases risk as people move between communities and across borders," says Lang.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

You are mining it all for the character work, so you’ve got to find it, but I don’t need to then infect my own children with it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2025

While many miners had a license at some point in the past, most of them don’t have the money to renew it, and it means that most of the miners are mining illicitly.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

The vast majority of small-scale or artisanal miners in the Amazon are mining illegally in protected areas, or working informally - outside reserves but without explicit permission from the government.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2023

The principal manufactures are mining pumps and machinery, flour, woollen goods, lumber and furniture.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various