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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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Often considered the birthplace of the city, the park sits on land reclaimed in the 1960s from former textile mills, transforming an industrial corridor into one of Greenville’s most beloved—and beautiful—public spaces. —

Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2026 The owners of Holdingford Feed Mill say other local feed mills are offering support. —

Riley Moser, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026 Research professor Juha Lehtonen notes Finland emits about 30 Mt of biogenic CO₂ per year from pulp mills and bioenergy. —

Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026 If the new bond is not approved, the district’s existing bond and interest tax rate is expected to decrease approximately 2 mills over the next five years and gradually decline until it is eliminated in 2041. —

Kendrick Calfee february 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2026 Innovate Energy combines Mike’s personal journey with the nuclear power’s broader evolution into a movement and a book aimed at people running mines, mills, and remote operations who are tired of gambling on the grid. —

Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026 Lumberyards, flour mills, livestock auctions, and other industries popped up, while irrigation canals were built quickly to support the region’s expanding agricultural community. —

Northwest River Partners, Idaho Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026 Young boys cleaned test tubes, brawny machinists built gauges and mills, and scales delicate enough to weigh an inch of a spider's web. —

Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026 Cuba’s sugar industry is nearly paralyzed because there is no diesel for the tractors and trucks needed to harvest and transport cane to the mills. —

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026

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Experts view these displays as a prelude to deploying robots in factories and logistics centers.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Feb. 2026
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program’s work started decades ago to clean up sites contaminated by hazardous waste from mining operations, landfills and factories.

— Chloe Bennett-Steele, StateImpact, 17 Feb. 2026