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Wilber, the Washington investigations editor for The Associated Press, said he had mined hundreds of thousands of records held at the U.S.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024

Where the company had mined, it had left behind a landscape of angular plateaus and open prairies alien to the Appalachians — “it feels like North Dakota,” Angel says.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020

For the only time in the last month or so the England bowling that had mined the mother lode at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge was off colour.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2015

Ahead of the hearing, Mr. Kasparov had mined social media sites for photographs and video documenting his arrest.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2012

Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik