coal miner

[kohl mahyn-er]

noun

1. a person who works to extract coal from the earth.

Example Sentences

He told Salon that Brown had helped secure health care and pension benefits for retired coal miners through working to pass the Bipartisan American Miners Act of 2019.

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Reynolds said his grandfather was a coal miner, but told his son "don't go down the mines".

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Atkins, 62, was raised in southwest Virginia by a coal miner and a garment worker and moved to San Diego in her 20s.

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The black lung screening program for coal miners was briefly killed off before an outcry led to a temporary reinstatement.

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The version I remember best comes from West Virginia, where my grandmother — daughter of a coal miner, master of the frugal feast — made hers with snapped spaghetti, ground chuck and a generous pour of Ragu.

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