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Recent Examples of borehole
To create a hole reaching the Antarctic waters, scientists and engineers blasted a borehole around one foot in diameter and about 3,300 feet deep using hot water.
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Joe Wilkins Published Feb 4, Futurism, 4 Feb. 2026
On Thwaites itself, part of the team will try today to drop a fiber-optic cable through a 3,200-foot borehole in the ice, near the glacier’s grounding line, where the ocean is eating away at it from below.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Deep Fission’s small modular reactor (SMR), called Gravity, is designed to stand 9 meters tall while remaining slim enough to fit inside a borehole roughly three-quarters of a meter wide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2025
In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, an eight-hundred-and-thirty-four-unit apartment complex that’s under construction has its heating and cooling provided through three hundred boreholes, none much deeper than about a hundred and fifty metres.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2025
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Joe Wilkins Published Feb 4, Futurism, 4 Feb. 2026
On Thwaites itself, part of the team will try today to drop a fiber-optic cable through a 3,200-foot borehole in the ice, near the glacier’s grounding line, where the ocean is eating away at it from below.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Deep Fission’s small modular reactor (SMR), called Gravity, is designed to stand 9 meters tall while remaining slim enough to fit inside a borehole roughly three-quarters of a meter wide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2025
In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, an eight-hundred-and-thirty-four-unit apartment complex that’s under construction has its heating and cooling provided through three hundred boreholes, none much deeper than about a hundred and fifty metres.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borehole
Noun
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Archaeologists didn't realize the significance of the building until the post-excavation analysis, Sebrich said.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Archaeologists are advised to dig a 5-metre buffer around any find, meaning costs could climb to $1 million or more if additional remains surface during the excavation.—
Ryan Brennan
March 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Makeshift trenches with food supplies and utensils belonging to the miners were also dismantled, with clothing items left behind after the miners fled the site in Randfontein, about 25 miles west of Johannesburg.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
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Chalamet wore a black-and-yellow plaid shirt, while Jenner wore a blue leather trench.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
13 Mar. 2026
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The research also sheds light on the South Pole–Aitken basin, the Moon’s largest and oldest known impact crater, spanning about 1,550 miles across the far side.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Mar. 2026
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Trouvelot cuts into this degraded crater, indicating that the neighboring basin formed first.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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While the conflict has impacted the availability of ISO-tanks, specialized vessels that carry helium, Zekauskas pointed out that Linde has a large storage cavern for its helium inventories — specifically for roughly one half year of global demand.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
13 Mar. 2026
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Here's what to know about the SPR, a network of salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana that can hold up to 714 million barrels of crude.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
10 Mar. 2026
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The Scottish singer-songwriter and activist visited Mexico this week incognito to explore the Mayan underworld, or Xibalbá — a system of caves, rivers, and underground lakes that wind beneath the Yucatan Peninsula.—
Natalia Cano,
Billboard,
13 Mar. 2026
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The Creature carries Elizabeth's bleeding body to a cave.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Mar. 2026
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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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City crews discovered the sinkhole, which is 14 feet deep, last Friday.—
Sarah Bahari,
Dallas Morning News,
13 Mar. 2026
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Last year, a massive sinkhole swallowed a truck in a city outside Tokyo, trapping the driver inside for more than 24 hours.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the Permian basin of New Mexico and west Texas, for example, producers can more quickly and economically ramp up extraction of light crude oil trapped in shale rock.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2026
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Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2026
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