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Recent Examples of borehole
Completely fossil-fuel-free, Kilchoan is the number one customer of Knoydart Renewables, and has built a new water borehole and provided equipment and modern sewage-treatment plants for the area.
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Jen Murphy,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2026
The first borehole ultimately went down to 1,250 feet through a greater percentage of bedrock than the second, which only went to 850 feet.
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Jan Ellen Spiegel,
Hartford Courant,
23 Feb. 2026
Despite the large swath of the Midcontinent Rift through Iowa, Clark said the state geological survey, housed at the University of Iowa, has only 24 borehole samples that were drilled deep enough, and in the right location, to intersect the basalt of the Midcontinent Rift.
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Cami Koons,
Iowa Capital Dispatch,
17 Feb. 2026
For a study in PNAS Nexus, researchers tracked the effects of such shake-ups on microbes at the bottom of a 100-meter-deep borehole in Yellowstone National Park.
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Damien Pine,
Scientific American,
9 Feb. 2026
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Jen Murphy,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2026
The first borehole ultimately went down to 1,250 feet through a greater percentage of bedrock than the second, which only went to 850 feet.
—
Jan Ellen Spiegel,
Hartford Courant,
23 Feb. 2026
Despite the large swath of the Midcontinent Rift through Iowa, Clark said the state geological survey, housed at the University of Iowa, has only 24 borehole samples that were drilled deep enough, and in the right location, to intersect the basalt of the Midcontinent Rift.
—
Cami Koons,
Iowa Capital Dispatch,
17 Feb. 2026
For a study in PNAS Nexus, researchers tracked the effects of such shake-ups on microbes at the bottom of a 100-meter-deep borehole in Yellowstone National Park.
—
Damien Pine,
Scientific American,
9 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borehole
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Part of what led you down this path to wellness was the excavation required for acting.
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The entire project, including demolition, excavation, landscaping repairs and the installation of garden beds, cost roughly $15,500.
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The most common is to apply liquid termiticide in a trench in the soil around your house.
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This poppy red trench is the kind of summer statement piece that’s worth the investment, especially with this discount.
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This large crater was created about 50,000 years ago when a meteorite hit the Earth.
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That crater is called Halema'uma'u, and is in fact where the eruptions of this volcano originate.
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There is a parallel track in Sanders’s life; one that leads towards the deep caverns of the manosphere.
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Moaning Caverns and Calaveras cave tours Calaveras County's caverns offer guided underground tours, dramatic cave formations and a cooler alternative on hot summer days.
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Now, visitors to Peleliu can explore the island’s cave systems and see tanks, cannons and other objects left in situ.
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And who can forget the frightening ice cave robot named Box, perfectly portrayed by Roscoe Lee Brown inside a shiny android suit?
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Sundowners are out in the bush, often by a water hole.
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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.
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Florida’s highest waterfall tumbles down a verdant, 100-foot-deep sinkhole.
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The runway was previously closed after a sinkhole formed around the Memorial Day travel rush.
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The original treaty was negotiated by the upper basin states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico as well as the three Lower Basin states of Arizona, Nevada and California.
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The wire seals certify a vessel had either been decontaminated and inspected for invasive species or was last launched in the Lake Tahoe basin, agency officials said in a news release.
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“Borehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borehole. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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