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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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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Recent Examples of mills
Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2026
There’s a specific rule for oil refineries, for instance, and another for steel mills.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 7 Jan. 2026
The city now even has a breakdown of where material collected for recycling goes — glass to Wisconsin and elsewhere in Illinois, metal to Illinois and Kentucky, paper to mills in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin, cartons just to Wisconsin.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Many of the state's largest polluters such as coal plants, chemical factories and steel mills have received exemptions from the federal government this year.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 6 Jan. 2026
Salvador Samba, Brazil’s signature percussive genre, was born in the sugarcane mills of Salvador, the heart of Black culture in the country.
—Carolina Abbott Galvão, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Causes of despair Despite successful interventions to shut down pill mills – clinics that prescribe opioids without a valid medical reason – and expand access to prevention and treatment, drug overdoses remain a leading cause of death.
—Kelly Chen, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
The Cadillac that helped drive Rolls-Royce to build beefier mills is up for grabs.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2025
The closing of textile mills, the loss of manufacturing jobs — particularly from an Oshkosh B’Gosh factory in nearby Clay County that moved to Mexico in the mid-Nineties — induced a steady contraction of the local economy.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
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Those qualities align with the ever-growing vintage denim market, and denim mills’ and brands’ quest to recreate worn effects.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for mills
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Within a decade of her former employer spinning off United Microelectronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Margaret Kao launched Marketech International to make the specialized materials and equipment needed for their chipmaking factories.—
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If universities truly were ideological factories, this kind of practical, human, apolitical education would be impossible.—
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The claw then releases the broken bikes and pounds them down once more for good measure.—
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Burrell pounds his way down to the four-yard line.—
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There are more than 53 dairy processing plants either being built or adding capacity in the United States, representing some $10 billion of capital expenditure, Boyd said.—
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The good thing is, most plants native to temperate parts of the globe evolved ways to deal with the annual seasonal cycle.—
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This week’s strikes came as the conflict grinds through its fourth winter, plunging cities into prolonged energy blackouts while temperatures dip well below freezing and are forecast to drop further.—
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But Kingstown grinds him up through the prison riots, through being fired from his job to accidentally being responsible for the death of his mother.—
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The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens are a quiet escape from downtown, while the Pineapple Grove Arts District adds galleries, independent shops, and creative spaces just off Atlantic Avenue.—
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The first two weeks of 2026 have been some of the worst yet, with exposures reported at schools, churches, restaurants, shops, airports and more.—
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While many of the Williams wannabes came from near and far, there were a few Caleb crushes in the crowd.—
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Continue reading … HOUSTON HITS HARD – Steelers' playoff nightmare continues as Texans defense crushes Rodgers in rout.—
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After a long day, nothing beats sipping it neat, appreciating the craftsmanship and the layers of flavor.—
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This helps regulate how the heart beats.—
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“Mills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mills. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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