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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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Suitsupply, a European men’s suit company known for Italian fabrics from mills like Larusmiani and Vitale Barberis Canonico, is also expected to open this year. —

Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2026 The process required onboarding suppliers across the value chain, from weaving mills and dye houses to laminators and trim manufacturers, into the same chemical management and environmental framework. —

Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 6 May 2026 This watershed feeds the region’s carpet mills, which use vast amounts of water, especially in the dyeing process. —

Dylan Jackson, ABC News, 6 May 2026 Marino was among more than 40 doctors, pharmacists and drug dealers charged in 2019 as part of a sprawling Justice Department investigation into pill mills in the Houston area. —

Evan MacDonald, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2026 Edinburg This storybook town along Route 11 is home to the Edinburg Mill, one of the last original grain mills in the Shenandoah Valley. —

Hayley Hutson, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026 The two biggest steel producers, Mobarakeh Steel and Khuzestan Steel, as well as smaller mills, halted production. —

Amir-Hussein Radjy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026 Cera explained the museum would have interactive exhibits with artifacts from various steel mills in the area. —

Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026 Fatla credits all that success to the city's blue-collar work ethic, forged in its steel mills since the 19th century. —

Ayana Archie, NPR, 24 Apr. 2026

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Farley pointed out to Fortune that Ford’s ongoing restructuring involves launching an energy business and converting several factories in that direction, with workers now needing to learn arcane expertise such as lithium iron phosphate chemistry.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 May 2026
By the 1980s, however, many of the area’s mines and factories had closed and the slow withdrawal of the industries that built the place left Wrexham facing the same post-industrial fate that had decimated blue-collar communities all over the world.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026