Thesaurus results for WELLS

wells

noun

plural of well

as in sources

a point or place at which something is invented or provided his quirkily dysfunctional family proved to be a bottomless well of inspiration for the novelist

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as in pools

a small often deep body of water the spot where the spring bubbles up to the surface and forms a deep well

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Recent Examples of wells Concerns are growing in Monroe County, Michigan, where some residents in Whiteford Township say their wells are running dry. —

Elaine Rojas-Castillo, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026 The 2nd edition dangled a Picasso oil painting, Nature Morte (1921), which went to a young Italian man (or rather, his mother; the lottery ticket was her Christmas gift), and raised $6 million for wells and sanitation improvements in Cameron, Madagascar, and Morocco. —

Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 15 Apr. 2026 Estimating methane from a reservoir is trickier than measuring plumes from natural gas wells or landfills, scientists say. —

Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026 That search for the next big song, within the wells of creativity that were the minds of Isaac and me, happened in the late hours of the night. —

Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2026 According to their most recent earnings presentation, Devon's wells are 24% more productive than the peer group average, and its per-barrel efficiency is 13% better than the peer group's average. —

Michael Khouw, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026 While 58 inches is narrow enough to slide inside a full-size pickup truck bed above the wheel wells, such as on a homemade platform or Decked drawer system, the new 72-in width extends beyond the maximum box width of even full-size trucks. —

New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026 To help replenish groundwater, check dams – small, temporary structures across waterways – have been constructed in Kabul’s 14 districts, and thousands of absorption wells that help manage stormwater have been dug, Abid said. —

ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026 Their family’s history in oil dates back to the early 20th century, when their grandmother’s husband, George Allan Hancock, drilled wells in Los Angeles during the industry’s heyday. —

Paige Gilliard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026

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On average, the study participants consumed about 41% of their daily food from ultraprocessed sources.

— Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
The fees help preserve the city’s general fund budget without having to cover the full cost of its maintenance from other sources.

— Henry Foster Iii, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026