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Recent Examples of driller
The setup The Sugar Land, Texas offshore oil driller’s stock is relatively flat over the last 12 months, but up more than 20% in 2026 and on the verge of a major breakout.
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Jay Woods, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
By the second week of December, the driller reached a depth of 1,450 feet and struck oil sands.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
The driller responsible for it, Patton Exploration, solicited companies to extend a pipeline to the oil well to capture the gas and evaluated whether the gas could be used to mine bitcoin.
—ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
The new company, called Caturus, is a tie up of two Kimmeridge investments — a Louisiana liquefied natural gas export project called Commonwealth LNG, plus the fast-growing natural gas driller Kimmeridge Texas Gas.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Jay Woods, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
By the second week of December, the driller reached a depth of 1,450 feet and struck oil sands.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
The driller responsible for it, Patton Exploration, solicited companies to extend a pipeline to the oil well to capture the gas and evaluated whether the gas could be used to mine bitcoin.
—ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
The new company, called Caturus, is a tie up of two Kimmeridge investments — a Louisiana liquefied natural gas export project called Commonwealth LNG, plus the fast-growing natural gas driller Kimmeridge Texas Gas.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for driller
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Mike Coppola / Getty Images Theater teacher Carl Gonzalez taught Jordan as a junior and senior and has been at the school for 24 years.—
Vanessa Murdock,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Travis Barker has worked with them, and every song is a Blink 182-level, class clown anthem about hot teachers and not wanting to leave your bedroom.—
Deborah Sengupta Stith,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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Mehdi Razavi, 48, of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, and Arezou Soltani, 45, of North Vancouver, British Columbia, were arrested in suspicion of murdering a former university math instructor and critic of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, police in Canada said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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Under a group of old oak trees, instructor Juanita Rivas-Raymer has led free and bilingual yoga classes since 2023.—
Nicole Macias Garibay,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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Lynch, in particular, is a standout, weaving together a drillmaster persona, an occasional anxiousness, and a winking humor.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
15 Sep. 2022
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“Driller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/driller. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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