hole
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An empty steel canister sat on a cleared drill pad, waiting to go down a second hole this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"On the fuselage, everything is done manually, so every hole, every rivet you see on the fuselage is being done manually," Operations Director Victor Ocadiz told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
It happened in 2022, when stocks and bonds fell together and blew a hole in the classic 60/40 stock-bond portfolio.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Nearly every galaxy in the universe appears to contain a supermassive black hole at its center.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
He followed the ridge until he came close to the stretch of flat ice and the breathing hole where the seal had shown its head.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Their central supermassive black holes may then have become locked in a gravitational struggle that launched the lightest black hole toward the edge of the combined galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Roughly once every 100,000 years, a star in a given galaxy may stray close enough to one of these black holes to be torn apart in a tidal disruption event.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The UK will no longer participate in research at the James Clark Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, which scientists are using to image supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Now everyone wants three 300-hp engines or more to get out to fishing holes faster,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
He just sat there on a limb, boring holes through me with his bright little eyes.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
After the deaths of their parents, the aging bluebloods holed up in their stately Harlem rowhouse, once a picture of Gilded Age polish, and became a public curiosity.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
He missed a three-footer at the eighth for birdie, but finally holed a birdie putt on the par-four ninth after driving the green to finish one over at the turn.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The June cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel came with a few Hezbollah men still holed up in two tunnels outside the city of Nabatiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
He holed a six-foot putt to save par, and that proved key as he limited the damage with a 34 on the back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
“We’ve been holed up ever since. It took something like six months to get word to my dad that I was out and safe, and another three to get some kind of response from him.”
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
He capitalised fully, holing the subsequent 30-foot putt for an improbable birdie.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
The sight of Player holing birdie putts and celebrating by lifting one young fan into his arms, contrasted superbly with nine-year-old Frankie Fleetwood's focus and determination to clear the water and hit the ninth green.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
That same night, Israel got a tip from ordinary Iranians that the leader of the feared Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani, was holing up with his deputies in a tent in a wooded area in Tehran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
But after holing up Sunday in his apartment 90 steps from the beach in the historic Zona Romantica, Eure was ready to venture outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
“Ah, but you had the pleasure of holing up in this fine American establishment.”
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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