Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in the Wrangell Mountains of southeast Alaska and flowing about 480 km (300 mi) southward through the Chugach Mountains to the Gulf of Alaska.
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Examples
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"Our salmon is up to 34 percent oil, compared to Copper River, which is about 17 percent,"
TNT Diner 2009
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Perhaps it is better distilled to this moment: each of us with a cup of wine, a blazing driftwood fire throwing sparks into the night sky, the Copper River rushing through the darkness, and neither of us wanting to be anywhere else in the world.
Ice cold in Alaska 2012
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In 1908 a copper mine in the mountains sparked construction of a railroad teetering along the edge of the Copper River; the mine has been abandoned for decades, the tracks are sloughing off into the water.
Ice cold in Alaska 2012
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My husband Sam and I will spend the next five days alone, rafting the most remote 80-mile stretch of the Copper River.
Ice cold in Alaska 2012
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Then back up they came for char-broiled 28-day dry-aged rib-eyes; wild Copper River sockeye salmon; white corn, fava bean, and baby chanterelle succotash; green salad; grilled pee wee potatoes; grilled heirloom peppers and chiles from the garden; fierce garlic bread; and, of course, more Prosecco, Kistler, and The Malibu Vineyard Rambla Pacifico Pinot Noir 2005, home-grown in our own backyard.
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Fisherman Ken Adams has made up for the loss of herring by relying on pink salmon and more lucrative fish, such as the sockeye salmon that spawn in Alaska's Copper River, close to Cordova.
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With an altitude of 1,000-2,000 ft (300-600 m), it is trenched by the Copper River and its tributaries, which form steep-walled canyons 100-500 ft (30-150 m) deep.
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Of course Sudar has an interest in that fishery, but he says the salmon are “the best available anywhere, as good or better than Copper River.”
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Inceptisols are dominant in the Copper River lowland.
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Once a $1 billion fund that primarily bet on the declining value of stocks it deemed overpriced, Copper River held large short positions in some illiquid stocks when the Securities and Exchange Commission tightened the rules governing short selling.
Hedge Fund Copper River to Liquidate Carol S. Remond 2008
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