Example Sentences

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To get there, it will mine untapped potential in China’s smaller, lesser-known cities, and more remote locations, the CSO said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Groppo estimates that in 20 years people will mine landfills to recover valuable materials in the junked panels, but “it makes an awful lot more sense for us to separate them now.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will mine autopsy results for ambiguity.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2021

She’ll track the birds with software to determine if they can reach Antarctica and conquer the barren ocean, and in turn the crew will mine it for its last slippery reserves.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2020

Cl. who furnish will mine eies with streaming teares My boiling anguish worthilie to waile, Waile thee Antonie, Antonie my heart?

From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney