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Recent Examples of borehole
During my trip, Moore’s corps of consultants and roughnecks were drilling the fifth borehole of their experimental project.
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Brent Crane, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025
To tap into Earth’s energy, Eversource drilled 88 boreholes about 600 feet below ground and installed an intricate system of horizontal and vertical underground pipes.
—Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
In a new study published in Science this month, an international team of researchers lowered a fiber-optic cable almost one mile down into a borehole in the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS), the largest ice stream in the Greenland ice sheet.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
The system will essentially act as a giant loop of pipes and boreholes drilled deep into the bedrock, where temperatures remain relatively constant.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2025
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Brent Crane, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025
To tap into Earth’s energy, Eversource drilled 88 boreholes about 600 feet below ground and installed an intricate system of horizontal and vertical underground pipes.
—Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
In a new study published in Science this month, an international team of researchers lowered a fiber-optic cable almost one mile down into a borehole in the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS), the largest ice stream in the Greenland ice sheet.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
The system will essentially act as a giant loop of pipes and boreholes drilled deep into the bedrock, where temperatures remain relatively constant.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borehole
Noun
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New excavations last summer unearthed a block of dirt containing pieces of the bucket.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
24 May 2025
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Medieval skeletons found in heart of Brussels during archaeological excavation Archaeologists in Brussels, Belgium, recently came across the remnants of an old cemetery located in a busy part of the city.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2025
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Bieber has proven time and time again that a floor-dusting trench goes with everything—including jorts and fisherman sandals.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
20 May 2025
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Most of the active coronae were encircled by trenches, a hint that old crust dives into Venus’s mantle around these rocky rings, where it is driven downward as buoyant rock rises from below in the middle of each corona’s ring structure.—
Elise Cutts,
Scientific American,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Here, peaks of eternal light and deep craters containing water ice promise the best mining, science and research opportunities.—
Michelle L.D. Hanlon,
The Conversation,
12 May 2025
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The crater could be beneath them or under the nearby sea, Prave said.—
Patrick Pester,
Space.com,
12 May 2025
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Inside the cavern were five vessels containing about 1,800 gemstones and precious metals, dating to around 240 BCE, and small pieces of bone and ash.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 May 2025
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To ensure the correct air (and water) pressure, the cavern will be dug at a depth of around 900 meters.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Feb. 2025
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Continue reading … -- IN OTHER NEWS VACATION NIGHTMARE – 12 family members diagnosed with fungal disease after exploring cave.—
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FOXNews.com,
23 May 2025
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Little kids swam under the waterfall and into a cave.—
Jimena Romero,
Miami Herald,
19 May 2025
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The most popular months for the park’s one million annual visitors, this is also the season when wildlife is most active; animals like alligators, deer, and wading birds congregate around lingering water holes.—
Matt Kirouac,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 Jan. 2023
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The water hole was surrounded by palm trees and sand dunes during the late Cretaceous period, but since then, the environment has changed drastically.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2025
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Bathtubs become sinkholes, beds explode with blood, and body bags whisper names.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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It was located near Exit 37 of the highway in Rockaway, just a few miles away from the extensive sinkhole issues.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2025
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Beside him stood two children, also cast in bronze, holding water basins that served as fountains — a nod to his charitable nature.—
Michael Wells,
Kansas City Star,
18 May 2025
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Used in the American heartland as well as in the Amazon basin where there’s been rapid deforestation for farming, the nitrogen-rich fertilizers are likely making their way into the Mississippi and Amazon Rivers as runoff, which then carries it into the Atlantic.—
Stephanie Elam,
CNN Money,
15 May 2025
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“Borehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borehole. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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