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strip-mine en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of strip mine.
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strip-mine en · VERB
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To mine by creating a strip mine, usually for coal or tar sands.
The decision to strip-mine was opposed by environmentalists.
Since 1945, approximately 4 million acres of land have been strip-mined, of which only 2 million have been revegetated.
1980, United States. Science and Education Administration. Cooperative Research, Minisite preparation for reforestation of strip-mined lands, Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, page 5:
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(figuratively) To use up all the resources of something.
This is what success looks like in the creator economy: A group of friends becomes a cast of characters, strip-mines lives and relationships for content and, in the process, turns into a corporation, with payroll to process and liabilities to consider.
2022 October 25, Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame”, in The New York Times Magazine:
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