Example Sentences

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Investors have been mining corporate earnings for clues as to how companies are faring as the economy moves past the pandemic.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2021

Popular street wear brands have been mining “old-school climbing stuff” from North Face, Patagonia, Eddie Bauer and L.L.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2019

State-owned Russian companies have been mining bauxite in Guinea, cutting deals to extract diamonds from Angola and winning concessions to produce off-shore gas in Mozambique.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2019

People have been mining the sun in such a way that it’s cooling off, and some of the outer worlds are already frozen dead.

From The Verge • Feb. 2, 2019

The monks at Tynemouth are known to have been mining coal on the Manor of Tynemouth in 1269, and shipping it to a distance.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)