Mingo
Americannoun
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Mingos
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“We as an industry are very reliant on electricity to make steel,” said Rob Simon, chief executive of JSW Steel USA, which uses an electric furnace at its Mingo Junction, Ohio, plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Mingo County is considering two more off-grid plants branded as the “Adams Fork Data Center Energy Campus.”
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
I was there on opening day in 1981 and witnessed the beginning of Fernandomania along with my buddy Curtis Mingo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
Mingo made his first court appearance on Monday and was denied a public defender.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
Mingo advocated staying in Indiana, but with a severe reduction in those they sheltered: the runaways, the lost.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
The French termed them "Mingos," from another Algonkin word meaning "stealthy."
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The few Shawnees and Mingos in the village followed his example in timidity.
From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison
McKee says that there were at first "upwards of three hundred Hurons and Lake Indians," besides the rangers and a very few Mingos, Delawares, and Shawnees.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt
Stop paddling—or, rather, that the Mingos needn't think we are plotting and contriving, and so treat us accordingly, just dip your paddle lightly, and give the canoe a little motion and no more.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
"I intend to send the guard of Mingos, Shannoahs, and Delawares, that our brothers may see the love and loyalty we bear them."
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
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