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Recent Examples of ingotSince then, a number of bakers across the country have introduced new versions of the classic sweet, which typically takes the form of a buttery shortcrust shaped like an ingot and filled with pineapple, which is sometimes mixed with winter melon.—Sarah Archer Gisela Williams Martha Cheng Carla Valdivia Nakatani Ryan Haase, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 The uranium is then fabricated into a large circular ingot before being fashioned into low-dose, smaller shapes in a high-temperature furnace.—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2024 Throughout the second and third millennia BC, Indus merchants traded with people across the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, their ships bringing copper ingots, pearls, spices and ivory.—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025 Gold bullion or gold jewelry Physical gold includes anything from gold bullion — investment-quality gold with a purity of 99.5% (995) in the shape of bars, ingots, coins or rounds — to jewelry and other collectibles.—Nathan Mahr, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ingot
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slab
Noun
Cantilevers can be formed into beams or slabs and are used in everything from bridges and balconies to canopies and furniture.
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Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
4 Aug. 2025
This is why: the plates move slowly (as befits continent-sized slabs of rock floating atop slowly churning magma), at just about 3 inches a year.
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