wellhead

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Recent Examples of wellhead The small business has been documenting the preservation process on their Instagram, most recently with this cast stone wellhead that was recovered from the actor's former estate, as well as these steel bay casement windows. Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 27 May 2025 Companies like the one Gonzalez worked for offered $10,000 per week to contract drivers who brought sand from the new mines spreading across old ranches to the wellheads. Saul Elbein, The Hill, 3 Mar. 2025 This argument is weakened by the lucrative nature of the Permian industry, where in 1921 the equivalent oil and gas revenue at the wellhead was $24 billion per year—assuredly an underestimate of the situation in 2025. Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 Due to the high cost of shipping oil to market from North Dakota, crude prices at the wellhead hovered just above $30/bbl at a time when West Texas Intermediate was selling above $55 in Cushing, Oklahoma. Jim Krane, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2015 See All Example Sentences for wellhead
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Noun
  • Frosted sodas feature the chain’s fountain drinks blended with its ice cream soft serve.
    Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
  • But this new permanent menu item layers the fountain beverages and ice cream rather than blending them together.
    Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The 2025 Festival of Remembrance called for formal simplicity, and Kate Middleton answered with a black-and-white Alessandra Rich peplum dress from the spring 2025 collection — a clean, structured silhouette built on crepe, lace trim and a pointed collar.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Many believe that those picks are the currency a team would use to chase a top quarterback prospect (like Mendoza) next spring.
    Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In 2019, an Arizona Republic investigation revealed the company had 420 wells, some drilled nearly half a mile deep.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • From there, lab directors select the wells with the highest concentrations of each virus, subjecting a reserved portion to further genetic analysis, which shows which subtype of each virus is present.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Enter Bernie Corbett, a third generation BU Terrier (1983 grad and student team manager), voice of BU hockey for the past 41 years, font of knowledge and great raconteur of the local sports scene.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The sui generis nature of Japanese culture, practices and lifestyle continue to be a font of inspiration for directors in the region.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025

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“Wellhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wellhead. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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