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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
strip-mine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective mined near the earth's surface by stripping
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Examples
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While King sought "to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation," besieged strip-mined residents in Knott County in eastern Kentucky organized their own sit-ins and protests to keep unchecked strip-miners from destroying their historic homelands and hillsides and watersheds.
Jeff Biggers: Governor's Sit-In Day Two: Why Kentucky Can't Wait Jeff Biggers 2011
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The material isn't overtly absurdist, offensive or angry, and you've heard many of the subjects before: commercial air travel, film and television, sports, binge drinking -- tropes long ago strip-mined by lesser comics.
Steven Shehori: Criminally Overlooked Albums: The Top Part by John Mulaney Steven Shehori 2011
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Every reader can simply go to this website and enter his or her zip code and see their connection to coal-fired electricity supplied by coal strip-mined from mountaintop removal or other strip-mining operations.
Jeff Biggers: One Love: The Nation Should Watch the Kentucky Rising Sit-in on Valentine's Day Jeff Biggers 2011
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While King sought "to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation," besieged strip-mined residents in Knott County in eastern Kentucky organized their own sit-ins and protests to keep unchecked strip-miners from destroying their historic homelands and hillsides and watersheds.
Jeff Biggers: Governor's Sit-In Day Two: Why Kentucky Can't Wait Jeff Biggers 2011
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Unfinished, never will be finished, but I strip-mined some of the ideas for my book Poison Sleep.
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Here, too, financial institutions have strip-mined a vulnerable population.
How to fix higher education: Doug Bennett, Earlham College Daniel de Vise 2011
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If the hybrid plantings thrive, some envision huge tracts of strip-mined Appalachia one day being restored with lovely chestnut forests.
The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback Juliet Eilperin 2010
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If the hybrid plantings thrive, some envision huge tracts of strip-mined Appalachia one day being restored with lovely chestnut forests.
American chestnut tree may reach former heights Juliet Eilperin 2010
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If the hybrid plantings thrive, some envision huge tracts of strip-mined Appalachia one day being restored with lovely chestnut forests.
The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback Juliet Eilperin 2010
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Unfinished, never will be finished, but I strip-mined some of the ideas for my book Poison Sleep.
2009 March « 2009
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