whipstock

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Noun
  • Her 9-year-old heeler dog, Hailey, had accidentally fallen down an old mining shaft, rescuers said.
    Helena Wegner July 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
  • Ventilation shafts will extend more than 200 meters above the tunnels, and a road junction will be built beneath the seabed near Kvitsøy.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • This shade created micro-climates where smaller fruit trees and ground crops could grow, while palm trunks and fences woven from fronds helped hold back the ever-encroaching sand and doubled as building materials.
    Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Over the past two years, he’s partnered with a brilliant crop of iconoclastic directors who have reimagined many of his signature shows in radical ways.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Whipstock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whipstock. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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