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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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The latest excavation began last August.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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Half a century later, Roig’s excavation of family life in a period of historical flux is now available in English in the United States for the first time.—
Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Stripped of the extra buttons, buckles, and belts that define a classic trench, the car coat is all about restraint and minimalism.—
Andrea Zendejas,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2026
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There is so much context and so much being created in real-time, a depth of output that is terrifying, like floating over the Mariana trench.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
20 Mar. 2026
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Magen David Adom, Israel's rescue service, released video showing a large crater in a street and shrapnel damage to an apartment building.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
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Nighttime is ideal for viewing the molten lava from the Halemaʻumaʻu crater, and the best viewing spots of the glowing crater include the Kilauea Overlook, Waldron Ledge and the Devastation Trail parking area.—
Ben Davidson,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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For more caves and caverns exploration, check out our guide.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Jim pointed out Linde's helium storage cavern in Texas, which allows the company to buy and store helium when prices are low, and then sell at a premium later on.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
17 Mar. 2026
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Today the only North American barn swallow population that still regularly uses caves as nest sites occurs in the Channel Islands off the California coast.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
21 Mar. 2026
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The ancient cave dwellings carved into the ravine called the sassi can be explored on foot for free, and navigating the steep, winding stone pathways between them is a workout in its own right.—
Lauren Schuster,
Charlotte Observer,
21 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
Noun
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Ripley also offers a combo ticket that includes the golf plus the nearby Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum (the sinkhole building) and the adjacent Ripley Mirror Maze attraction.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
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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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An agreement among the basin’s seven states over how to divide its water expired at the end of last year, and negotiations to develop a new water plan fell apart last month.—
Mira Rojanasakul,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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Lake Powell, the main reservoir near the border between the upper and lower basins, will get just 52% of its usual inflow from snowmelt this year, the Bureau of Reclamation forecast last month.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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