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- noun Plural form of
coalmine .
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Examples
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Like a tax to fund the care for men who contracted Black lung in coalmines.
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen 2010
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I do not say that the failure of our coalmines will be the only possible check.
The Coal Question~ Of the Growth and Migrations of our Population William Stanley Jevons 1865
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Later, there were food riots and raids on delivery trucks and packinghouses, as well as the occupations of shuttered coalmines and bankrupt utility companies by the desperate who began to work them.
Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011
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Newt's America is an America in which the children go into the coalmines at age nine and can only move up by working themselves up the chain of hard labor rather than becoming educated and getting a high-paying job based on their intellect.
Michael Genecin: Clashes Between the Young and Old: Newt Gingrich and the Republican Primaries Michael Genecin 2012
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Later, there were food riots and raids on delivery trucks and packinghouses, as well as the occupations of shuttered coalmines and bankrupt utility companies by the desperate who began to work them.
Steve Fraser: Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You Steve Fraser 2011
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This is a very brief summary of my life as a POW, but what of others in Germany itself & places like Poland? where it was common knowledge they were forced to work in coalmines, saltmines, etc. POW's & others under the Japanese rule have been awarded compensation of $25,000 of which we wholeheartedly agree, it is well deserved, but sadly long overdue.
Frank Cox 2010
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The coalmines closed and then the tyre factory and the steelworks.
Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010
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McCaughey, Ray and Harold Gaby, were sent to Lamsdorf (Stalag VIIIB) in Silesia, which was in Poland, to work in coalmines and petrochemical works.
John McWilliams 2010
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As well as sediment, the brown water carries nutrients and pesticides from agricultural run-off, together with whatever nasties have been washed out of flooded coalmines.
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Lavamund, in saw-mills, forestry, railways, the coalmines at Steyr and, together with prisoners from Stalag XVIIIC at Markt Pongau, on road construction in the
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