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as in repository
an abundant source
a baseball fanatic who is a mine of fascinating trivia about the game
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Recent Examples of mine
Jenna McMurtry, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
Currently, the craft is geared toward seven different missions, including Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW), electronic warfare, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), logistics, infrastructure monitoring, combat strikes, and mine warfare.
—New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Hissrich certainly feels there's more to mine here, but is ultimately grateful to actually make it to the finish line.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The town dates back to the 1860s, when Union Pacific's nearby coal deposits lured thousands of immigrant laborers to the mines and railyards as the company neared the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
—Jenna McMurtry, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
Currently, the craft is geared toward seven different missions, including Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW), electronic warfare, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), logistics, infrastructure monitoring, combat strikes, and mine warfare.
—New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
That requires mining all over the planet, much of it involving widespread destruction of croplands and wildlife habitats, extensive child and slave labor, and enormous amounts of toxic air and water pollution.
—Craig Rucker, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Hissrich certainly feels there's more to mine here, but is ultimately grateful to actually make it to the finish line.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mine
Noun
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Many communities choose a historic building to become the repository of the city’s historical treasures.—
Del Mar Historical Society,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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In the mid 2000s, Gates was working as an arts administrator at the University of Chicago, while also buying derelict buildings on the city’s South Side and turning them into artists’ studios or repositories for his collections of books, records, and photographic slides.—
Elizabeth Cantrell,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The military contractor supplies weapons to Israel and is the maker of the MK-84 bomb, an unguided heavy explosive with a wide blast radius.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
25 Sep. 2025
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Leonardo DiCaprio is Bob, a revolutionary whose specialty is explosives.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Her ex and his friends attacked him with a baseball bat and tried to shove him in a washing machine at one of his dad’s laundromats.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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As the first crews began attacking the fire from inside the building, other crews were called in to make sure no one was inside.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These novel products did not immediately make the S&P 500 a gold mine.—
Alex Mayyasi,
NPR,
23 Sep. 2025
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Ex-Secret Service agent: Weapon found is 'gold mine of information' Donald Lane, a former U.S. Secret Service agent with decades of experience in fugitive manhunts, told USA TODAY that the recovery of the rifle used in the killing of Kirk is a significant development for law enforcement.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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No bombs were found and police were investigating the threats.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Two plays later, senior quarterback Owen Mordas connected on a beautiful bomb to senior receiver Brody Carges for a score to make it 14-7.—
Erik Anderson,
Boston Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Of these, 440 samples had never been sequenced before, offering a treasure trove of fresh data.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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Though Season 22 has not been announced for the long-running series, fans will have a fashionable finale – and a treasure trove of past episodes to remember for now.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These may show up in Ukraine before long, perhaps walking ahead of patrols to find booby traps and clear routes through minefields, or taking bullets to expose enemy firing position.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Some enterprising Viet Cong had defused this and turned into a booby trap detonatable by wires from brush a few hundred feet away.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
27 July 2025
Verb
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And in July – not far from the Dallas field office, at an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas – attackers used fireworks to draw out ICE agents and ambush them.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Upon booting up the game and working through a pretty robust character creator, players arrive in Lumiose City and are immediately ambushed by a content creator/social media manager working for the corporation Quasartico, Inc.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Mine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mine. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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