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  • adjective well known and commonly used

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Examples

  • Movies like Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2 (Money Never Sleeps) delve into the well-mined culture of greed, with the director, perhaps chastened by the criticisms of his recent political travelogue in South America, assuring the NY Times it's not a "Michael Moore movie" whatever that means.

    Danny Schechter: See No Evil: Movies, Inquiry Avoid Exposing Fraud While Banksters Go Free 2010

  • His quartet is a marvelous reminder that there's more to jazz than the well-mined blues and "I Got Rhythm" changes.

    Reviving Sounds and Legends 2010

  • However, even on this well-mined, female-centric turf, the mistakes made by marketers are numerous.

    What Women Want From Marketers: Straight Talk Janie Curtis 2009

  • We walked down that well-mined path once in recent American memory and we know where it leads.

    Tom Engelhardt: The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) 2009

  • Sampson for not having forced the narrow and well-mined channel at the risk of his fleet.

    The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power Carl Russell Fish 1904

  • If the themes are familiar - this is terrain well-mined by Malamud, Bellow and Roth - Englander refreshes them with narrative experimentation and a cast of appealingly crazy characters.

    News 2012

  • Our flight overseas was without incident, and since the C-17 transport plane that delivered us to northern Helmand Province didn't have any windows, there was no landscape upon which to gaze; no wadis to imagine well-mined, no river valleys to mentally populate with insurgents, no hell to look down at and ask myself the sergeant's question.

    NYT > Home Page By SECOND LT. KELLEY VICTOR GASPER 2011

  • In aesthetic terms, they are working in well-mined territory, but Dee Dee's songwriting is a cut above and the production has this ideal balance of lo-fi grit and professional sparkle.

    Fluxblog Matthew Perpetua 2010

  • A well-mined site indicates that the ambushing party (in this case the Maoists) had ample time to plan its attack.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • A well-mined site indicates that the ambushing party (in this case the Maoists) had ample time to plan its attack.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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