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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 early regulatory filings acknowledge these challenges, noting that the deep borehole complicates compliance around monitoring and visual inspection, and that additional guidance will be required for remote operation.
—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 early regulatory filings acknowledge these challenges, noting that the deep borehole complicates compliance around monitoring and visual inspection, and that additional guidance will be required for remote operation.
—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 group will begin with three levels of below-grade excavation for the project’s underground parking garage.—
Nick Wooten,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Feb. 2026
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To check lines, the department will use hydro-excavation, a process that involves high-pressure water to bore into the ground.—
Suzanne King,
Kansas City Star,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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If digging a trench is too disruptive or expensive, see if your plumber can install a liner in the pipe to repair leaks.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2026
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At New York Fashion Week, editors traded in classic trenches for cape coats tossed over tailoring.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Either way, as totality deepens and the moon grows dimmer, try increasing magnification and focus on some of the moon’s famous features bathed in red light, such as Tycho crater rays and the rugged Apennine Mountains.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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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,
2 Mar. 2026
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In short, the cavern becomes an underground energy reserve — a battery, but on a geological scale.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Feb. 2026
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The 100-acre limestone cavern has more than 17 miles of underground passageways and is home to Mega Zip Lines tour, Mega Quest ropes course, Mega Walking tours and Mega Tram tours.—
Kirby Adams,
Louisville Courier Journal,
12 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Ecologists have been trying to protect the delicate caves for years as development and pollution increasingly threaten the underwater waterways.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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Though an occasional cellphone or refrigerator does make an appearance, Salvation takes place against an epic, timeless canvas, one filled with torchlit gatherings, solitary figures lurking in caves, and ghostly hallucinations.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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One woman said solving the sinkhole issue is worth the hassle.—
Brandon Goldner,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Omaha Public Works indicates on its website that the sinkhole was the result of a water main break.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Snow shortfalls reached record territory across the mountains as drought in the Colorado River basin has only intensified.—
Naema Ahmed,
Washington Post,
27 Feb. 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,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Borehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borehole. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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