mining

verb

Definition of miningnext
present participle of mine
as in attacking
to place hidden explosive devices in or under the troops hurriedly mined the field before relinquishing it to the enemy

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Recent Examples of mining The series premiering on Starz is, more than anything else, blandly familiar, mining all the tropes of several popular genres without finding anything distinctive in the combination. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026 Charcoal production was essential for mining ore in the Harz Mountains. — ABC News, 27 July 2026 Public health has begun mining new kinds of data to spot outbreaks sooner. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 The sense of musical continuity is a welcome thing for fans who wanted to hear White keep mining that same vein of intricate/blowhard blues-rock. — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 July 2026 During the fall of 2019, a delegation of American diplomats and national-security officials arrived in Nuuk to discuss Greenland’s mineral resources, with a particular focus on mining strategic rare-earth minerals. — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 How can mining of the Ogallala in Colorado be slowed? — Allen Best, Denver Post, 14 June 2026 Unlike other hard metals, tungsten is largely nontoxic, but the byproducts from mining it—called tailings—contain other harmful metals including arsenic, copper, zinc and lead and can leach into the environment. — Ari Sen, Scientific American, 13 June 2026 The rising price of gold made mining an attractive source of forex. — Claire Wilmot & Gisa Tunbridge, The Dial, 12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mining
  1. attacking
  2. bombing
Verb
  • Iran has bombarded several of its neighbors’ data centers, and the United States responded by attacking one of Iran’s.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • That’s in stark contrast to their arachnid cousins, spiders, whose females that tend to be violent, attacking and eating the males.
    — Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of attacking
Verb
  • In 2003, Libya formally took responsibility for bombing Pan Am 103.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
  • The meeting came after nearly two weeks of the United States bombing Iran, with Tehran striking back against allies in the region, including a hit on a military base in Jordan that killed three American service members.
    — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Definition of bombing

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“Mining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mining. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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