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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
Noun
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Throw on anything from a shearling jacket, long trench, or oversized hoodie, to a fuzzy, faux fur coat or chunky sweater dress with this stylish headgear.—
Morgan Evans,
InStyle,
31 Dec. 2025
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To learn why dating in Nashville, in particular, may be so tough, The Tennessean interviewed Music City's Gen Z and Millennial crowds who have spent their time in the dating trenches.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
30 Dec. 2025
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The Griffin lander will demonstrate its ability to land with no official NASA payload, but will touch down on Mons Mouton near the western rim of Nobile crater close to the lunar south pole.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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Hera will conduct high-resolution mapping of the impact crater, measure the asteroid's mass and internal structure, and deploy two cubesats for close-up observations of surface properties and debris.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
1 Jan. 2026
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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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Amtrak trains couldn’t run between Albany and the Berkshires for several months this year because of a six-foot-deep sinkhole.—
The Atlantic Science Desk,
The Atlantic,
27 Dec. 2025
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X-raying the past The setting for this natural history drama is a deep limestone sinkhole in Hispaniola.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Dec. 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 10 Jan. 2026.
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