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Recent Examples of borehole
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
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.
—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
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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Damien Pine, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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
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Collected across multiple excavation projects, the items are offering historians an unprecedented look at life in the province of Gelderland–named after the legendary death rattle of a dragon–during Roman occupation.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
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The archaeologists, who have been working on the excavation of the shipwreck since the end of last year, found the remains of the vessel 15 meters (almost 50 feet) below the water’s surface, where visibility is virtually zero, according to a press release from the museum published Thursday.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2026
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While many of us have a classic trench coat in our wardrobes, Meghan made the case for a trench dress.—
Katherine J Igoe,
InStyle,
3 Apr. 2026
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April showers tend not to require full-length trenches, especially as temperatures start to climb.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
1 Apr. 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,
30 Mar. 2026
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In September 2023, Oz led Hansen, other Artemis 2 astronauts, and researchers in exploring a moon-like crater in northern Labrador, Canada.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Be sure to visit one of the former tufa quarries, with their impressively huge caverns.—
Elizabeth Heath,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Mar. 2026
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Its caverns reach higher than 65 stories and stretch as wide as one and a half football fields — large enough to contain the Great Pyramid of Giza.—
Brit McCandless Farmer,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Steel support pillars driven into the caves have caused rust and iron pollution in the water.—
Ryan Brennan
April 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Mexico’s Underwater Caves Yield Glimpse Into the Past The remains were found 26 feet (8 meters) below the surface, roughly 656 feet (200 meters) into the cave.—
Ryan Brennan
April 4,
Kansas City Star,
4 Apr. 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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Cenotes are freshwater sinkhole caves formed from the collapse of limestone bedrock.—
Ryan Brennan
April 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Nine months later, Kinser’s remains were found in a sinkhole with a bullet hole in his skull, according to court documents.—
Omar Jimenez,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2026
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During periods of high sea levels, salt water flooded into the basin between North and South America and formed a shallow sea where algae thrived.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Six rooms are designated as accessible, fitted with basins and beds at an accessible height.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Borehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borehole. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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