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
  • As Lester fumbles for his bird whistle in the fountain to activate the camera, he gets thrown back in this tussle with Tillman and is killed.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Desperate, Lester then grabbed his bird whistle and dashed to the Arconia courtyard fountain.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
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
  • Guests may choose a water treatment in a pool that evokes the area’s limestone cenotes (underground wells) or try a purification by a local healer in a temazcal (a traditional heated lodge), among many other journeys for mind and body well-being.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2025
  • To solve this conundrum and to discover if dark matter could be governed by a fifth, thus far unknown fundamental force, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) set about determining if dark matter falls into cosmic gravity wells on vast scales just as ordinary matter does.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
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 14 Nov. 2025.

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