miner
/ˈmaɪnər/
noun
- A person who works in a mine, extracting minerals such as coal, gold, or diamonds from the earth.
- The miner descended into the shaft with his safety helmet.
- My grandfather was a coal miner for forty years.
- The miners went on strike for better working conditions.
- A person or machine that extracts data or cryptocurrency from a digital source.
- She set up a powerful computer to act as a cryptocurrency miner.
- The bitcoin miner solved a complex algorithm to earn new coins.
- Data miners analyze large sets of information to find patterns.
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