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What does strip-mining mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of strip-mine
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He has been, in effect, strip-mining the emotional responses of blue-collar men to the problems his own administration is so intent on causing.
Once the Dine realised what strip-mining was doing to their land, they filed a law suit, which was rejected.
It's just strip-mining the action genre to please the audience.
Here the company operates the world's largest coal strip-mining operation.
Anglo-American humanities academics has been strip-mining 20th Century European thinkers and writers for the last 30-40 years.
It isn't so much a case of technology transfer as digital strip-mining.

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