drill into

phrasal verb

drilled into; drilling into; drills into
: to force (something) to be learned very well by (someone) by repeating it again and again
Our teacher drilled the lesson into our heads.

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Hunting and Conservation Editor Andrew McKean is Outdoor Life’s hunting and conservation editor, drilling into issues that affect wildlife, wildlands, and the people who care about them. Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025 The island is also a rock, with no soil to drill into. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 May 2025 Led by Bruce Willis, Armageddon follows the story of NASA enlisting a group of oil drillers to fly into space, land on a massive asteroid that’s hurtling towards Earth, drill into the rock and insert a nuclear bomb to destroy it. Jen Juneau, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025 Key points to drill into were obvious and practice plans were easy to dial up. Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drill into

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“Drill into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drill%20into. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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