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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarrying
mining
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China accounts for nearly 70% of the world's rare earths mining and controls roughly 90% of their global processing.—
NPR,
NPR,
12 Oct. 2025 -
Citizens broke ground on the DigIndy project in 2013 and started with mining the tunnel system, which was broken up into different sections.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Quarrying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarrying. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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