be sunk

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This is the better-than-ten-bagger bet that AI luminaries talk up as they set out plans for trillions of dollars to be sunk into data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

It is entirely possible that “Emilia Pérez” will finally be sunk by all the controversies plaguing it this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

But terrestrial biomass can be sunk only where supplies of waste are located near suitable bodies of water.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2023

Workers prepare the site of the second mineshaft to be sunk at Oyu Tolgoi in the South Gobi desert in Mongolia November 10, 2007.

From Reuters • Jun. 8, 2022

I don’t know how low someone got to be sunk to think up doing something that evil.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis