natural resource
noun
1
natural resources plural
: industrial materials and capacities (such as mineral deposits and waterpower) supplied by nature
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In Argentina, accusations of untrustworthy inflation and economic growth data have dogged Latin America’s third-largest economy for decades, scaring off investors despite a wealth of natural resources.
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Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
These include giving Putin access to the rare earth minerals in the Ukrainian territories Moscow partially occupies, as well as opportunities to tap into the natural resources in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia's eastern coast.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Only after the increase in discoveries of natural resources, the federal government began to take more interest in the land, with Alaska finally becoming a state on Jan. 3, 1959, Farrow said.
—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2025
Companies today are facing a complex array of risks and trade-offs across value chains, starting from an increasing demand for natural resources to economic volatility and uncertainty, to witnessing climate risks.
—Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
These include giving Putin access to the rare earth minerals in the Ukrainian territories Moscow partially occupies, as well as opportunities to tap into the natural resources in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia's eastern coast.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Only after the increase in discoveries of natural resources, the federal government began to take more interest in the land, with Alaska finally becoming a state on Jan. 3, 1959, Farrow said.
—Megan Forrester, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2025
Companies today are facing a complex array of risks and trade-offs across value chains, starting from an increasing demand for natural resources to economic volatility and uncertainty, to witnessing climate risks.
—Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for natural resource
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“Natural resource.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural%20resource. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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