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Recent Examples of borehole
Another safety feature is the fact that placing the borehole in a stable area and drilling deep beyond the water table means the reactor is essentially self-disposing.
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New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
According to the company, the attendees even viewed the borehole itself through a camera lowered down the shaft, revealing a smooth transition from surface soil to uniform granite walls.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
The Pacific challenge aims to raise awareness and funding to build boreholes for the whole of the Ambohimanarina municipality in Madagascar, where currently only 14% of the population has access to safe, clean drinking water.
—Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
Bedrock Energy, a geothermal drilling startup company that employs advanced drilling techniques developed by the oil and gas industry, is currently drilling dozens of boreholes that will help heat and cool the town’s Northwest Colorado Business District.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
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New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
According to the company, the attendees even viewed the borehole itself through a camera lowered down the shaft, revealing a smooth transition from surface soil to uniform granite walls.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
The Pacific challenge aims to raise awareness and funding to build boreholes for the whole of the Ambohimanarina municipality in Madagascar, where currently only 14% of the population has access to safe, clean drinking water.
—Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
Bedrock Energy, a geothermal drilling startup company that employs advanced drilling techniques developed by the oil and gas industry, is currently drilling dozens of boreholes that will help heat and cool the town’s Northwest Colorado Business District.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borehole
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During the 2025 excavation campaign, researchers in Iraq unearthed a monumental building that might transform current understandings of Uruk’s relationship with surrounding regions, a location known as the world’s first metropolis.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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And his email to Knight led to a painful excavation of the past, charted in The Stringer, that could change the historical record.—
Maria Fontoura,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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Below are the three most salient lessons from the depths of the speculative fiction trenches.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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From flattering faux leather pants and wide-leg jeans to a chic trench and the ultimate fall overcoat, here are the European styles to shop this season—starting at $15 at Amazon.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
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The anomalous Chicxulub crater [one of the largest and best preserved craters on Earth] had been discovered by petroleum geologists decades before its significance was revealed by Alvarez et al.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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The episodic eruption has been contained within a closed area of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, including the Halemaʻumaʻu crater and the southwest side of Kaluapele, Kīlauea's summit caldera.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Nov. 2025
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The sulfur-rich stream, fed by natural springs and winds through the cavern, releases hydrogen sulfide that sustains this unexpected chain of life.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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This cavern, known as Sulfur Cave, houses a chemoautotrophic ecosystem sustained not by sunlight but chemosynthesis – or the process of converting chemical energy into organic matter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 Nov. 2025
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The mid-century offered more literal interpretations of cave living, from The Flintstones (1960) to the villainous Bond lair, often hidden within or carved into cliffs.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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However, the successful samples have largely been collected from dark caves or other cold and stable environments where DNA is preserved particularly well.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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For them, luxury is watching elephants drink at the water hole under moonlight or waking up to hear lion roars in the distance.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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The water hole was surrounded by palm trees and sand dunes during the late Cretaceous period, but since then, the environment has changed drastically.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2025
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For more than 40 years, what is now known as the ISS has been a sinkhole for money.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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The woman hunkered down inside her Food for the Poor home, which was built six years ago, and watched as the storm ripped off part of her roof and led to a sinkhole opening up in her bedroom.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Climate crisis supercharging typhoons The western Pacific is the most active tropical basin on Earth but global ocean temperatures have been at record levels for each of the last eight years.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Officials say negotiations and dealmaking can’t save the basin, or Arizona, from that reality.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Borehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borehole. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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