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plural of mill

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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verb

present tense third-person singular of mill

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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Innovate Energy combines Mike’s personal journey with the nuclear power’s broader evolution into a movement and a book aimed at people running mines, mills, and remote operations who are tired of gambling on the grid. —

Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026 Lumberyards, flour mills, livestock auctions, and other industries popped up, while irrigation canals were built quickly to support the region’s expanding agricultural community. —

Northwest River Partners, Idaho Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026 Young boys cleaned test tubes, brawny machinists built gauges and mills, and scales delicate enough to weigh an inch of a spider's web. —

Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026 Cuba’s sugar industry is nearly paralyzed because there is no diesel for the tractors and trucks needed to harvest and transport cane to the mills. —

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026 Rust-colored brick buildings, quiet neighborhoods, and remnants of mills and factories speak to the region’s rich industrial history. —

Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026 The Daniel’s Mill project is a part of the Rockville Mill Complex project, which is a remediation and renovation project to repurpose and reuse contaminated 19th century textile mills for the 21st Century. —

Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026 Despite the challenges of planning collections, mills remain motivated by the clear direction designers are bringing and their focus on meeting evolving consumer demands. —

Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 26 Jan. 2026 Then came the Chilean branch of Williamson, Balfour, a global firm founded by two Scotsmen with interests in everything from flour mills to railroads and oil fields in Chile and Peru. —

Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026

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Lalor said there was a price increase of around five percent early last year, but that manufacturers, factories and retailers absorbed most of the cost increases from the new tariffs imposed in 2025.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
Apparel Export Council chairperson Fadel Marzouk said that Egyptian factories account for 63 percent of the country’s total garment exports, attributed to robust growth and the support of government entities such as the Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Investment.

— Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 11 Feb. 2026