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sinkholes

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plural of sinkhole

as in basins

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More than half of the reservoirs technically compatible with gas-injection flooding sit within Texas and the broader Gulf Coast region, encompassing onshore basins and offshore fields.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
So far, the hurricane center has named 14 storms in the eastern and central Pacific basins, including four hurricanes.

— Doyle Rice, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of basins

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The company's first wells at its pilot facility in Nevada took 70 days to drill to a measured depth of 11,220 feet.

— Pippa Stevens, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
Engineering light at nanoscale The team built the semiconductor from gallium arsenide and aluminum gallium arsenide, arranging the materials into ultra-thin layers known as multi-quantum wells.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026

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At the resort, there’s a host of activities and amenities, including four golf courses with 10-18 holes each, bass fishing, axe throwing, pickleball, and more.

— Megan duBois, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
Instead of etching holes directly into the semiconductor, researchers patterned a silicon dioxide layer and then covered it with epitaxial semiconductor.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of holes

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Combination plans cover both, often with optional add-ons for items such as pools or septic systems.

— Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
Yet, despite having pristine pools of first-party consumer insights, many CDPs remain passive archives—costly repositories of record that store data rather than act on it in real time.

— Pratik Bhadra, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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