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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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This led investigators to determine that Michael’s body was once buried in the backyard, but moved before the excavation.—
Alex Brizee
March 5,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Mar. 2026
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There are several activities on the docket, including a slime bar, temporary tattoos, dinosaur excavation, bubble area, live doodle booth, mobile noble planetarium and more.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Just offshore, Mafia Island Marine Park is home to vibrant coral reef systems and elaborate trenches ideal for diving.—
Melanie van Zyl,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Mar. 2026
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The most common is to apply liquid termiticide in a trench in the soil around your house.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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The research also sheds light on the South Pole–Aitken basin, the Moon’s largest and oldest known impact crater, spanning about 1,550 miles across the far side.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Mar. 2026
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Trouvelot cuts into this degraded crater, indicating that the neighboring basin formed first.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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Local legend has it that the outlaw Jesse James once used the caverns as a hideout, adding some infamous intrigue to the subterranean spectacle.—
Zoey Goto,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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To remove oil from the reserves, water is pumped into the salt caverns, making the crude float to the surface, where it is captured and sent through pipelines to refineries.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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However, Little Foot’s skull, which became crushed as surrounding cave sediment grew heavier and shifted over time, has been difficult to study.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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These natural gems give a glimpse into the Floridan aquifer, a system of porous limestone that forms underground caves and rivers, pushing water up through vents and ultimately flowing into the faucets of millions of Sunshine State residents.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 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
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Phillipsburg declared a state of emergency last month when a sinkhole swallowed a dump truck.—
Nick Caloway,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2026
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University of Nebraska-Omaha Public Safety security cameras show the moment two vehicles fell into a sinkhole on Tuesday — and how the drivers were able to get out.—
Ira Gorawara,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The research also sheds light on the South Pole–Aitken basin, the Moon’s largest and oldest known impact crater, spanning about 1,550 miles across the far side.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Mar. 2026
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Just to the left of Trouvelot lies another large basin that appears even older and more heavily eroded, with its rim almost completely worn away.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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