copper

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Recent Examples of copper How restaurants are dealing with more break-ins The businesses have endured several high-profile break-ins over the past several months, with thieves stealing copper pipes and wire, food and equpiment. Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 22 Oct. 2025 Keweenaw National Historic Park encompasses both public and private sites throughout the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula and features heritage sites from the area's copper mining history. Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025 And this peptide serum delivers, with 10 different peptides (which serve to smooth lines and plump lax skin) housed in yet another copper peptide that delivers them deep into the skin. Deanna Pai, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2025 After entering through gates made of copper that was previously used for pot stills, the tour starts in a museum that chronicles the spirit’s history. Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for copper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for copper
Noun
  • These ideas are laid out early in the first act, when an encounter between a policeman, Olim, and a fruit-stand thief, Severin, is presented to the audience.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In a frantic but delicate rescue, captured on images and video reviewed by CNN, a policeman dug away the packed earth.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The measure would provide $45 billion to expand ICE’s detention capacity to nearly 100,000 beds, $14 billion for transportation and removal operations and $8 billion to hire 10,000 new deportation officers.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, my former agency the NGA is charged with both making maps (the job of explorers) and uncovering what’s really going on in those places (the job of intelligence officers).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If a deal makes, Jordan will play Ricardo Tubbs, one half of the famous cop duo known as Crockett & Tubbs.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Read, who was acquitted earlier this year of the Boston cop’s murder, is being sued for her boyfriend’s death.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kamal says the constables accused him of forging them and detained him.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Randles plays Elle Hardy, a senior constable assigned to reinvestigating the case.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Copper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copper. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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