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plural of mill

as in factories

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods a steel mill that remains the town's principal employer

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mill

as in pounds

to reduce to fine particles a demonstration of how dried kernels of corn were milled in colonial times

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Many residents cherish the old brick-and-wood mills as a visual centerpiece of Rockville as well as a reminder of that area’s long-ago moniker of Loom City. —

Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026 Despite the challenges of planning collections, mills remain motivated by the clear direction designers are bringing and their focus on meeting evolving consumer demands. —

Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 26 Jan. 2026 Puppy mills produce puppies as cheaply and quickly as possible, often at the expense of the dogs’ health and well-being. —

Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2026 Then came the Chilean branch of Williamson, Balfour, a global firm founded by two Scotsmen with interests in everything from flour mills to railroads and oil fields in Chile and Peru. —

Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026 The weavers replaced by textile mills saw their craft vanish, but clothing became cheaper and more abundant. —

Zack Kass, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026 There’s a specific rule for oil refineries, for instance, and another for steel mills. —

Lisa Song, ProPublica, 7 Jan. 2026 There was a scarcity of paper mills that produced recycled paper at the time. —

Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026 Many of the state's largest polluters such as coal plants, chemical factories and steel mills have received exemptions from the federal government this year. —

Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 6 Jan. 2026

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German defense giant Rheinmetall has been building a slew of new factories since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and will soon make more 155mm artillery shells than the entire US defense industry.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Spiber aims to achieve 100 percent renewable energy for its factories to keep carbon intensity low.

— Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026