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I am taken from a mine and shut in a wooden case from which I am never released. Yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
A large oasis in the desert. Come with cash and leave with none.
I make things short but I am pretty long myself
People make me, save me, change me, and raise me. What am I?
I am a creature with a βtightβ name.
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?