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mined

  • past participle of mine.
  • past tense form of mine.

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During a 2019-20 artist residency with New York City’s Department of Records and Information Services, Weist mined municipal archives for records revealing how city government had defined, supported and monitored past artists.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2026

The ore mined at Kamoa has a copper content of 2.8 percent, four times the global average.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

Were any of the songs on the new album mined from previously unreleased material or did you start fresh?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Production is based on mined, rather than refined output.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

They’d mined tin in Cornwall for three thousand years until one day the tin had run out.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz