drilled
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Go back to the two commodities that’s been drilled in their head that they should aspire to is homeownership and a four-year college degree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
To construct it, researchers drilled deep holes and lowered long strings of sensitive light detectors called photomultiplier tubes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki in southwestern Finland, the geological repository will house spent nuclear fuel in holes drilled into the bedrock, where it will remain harmfully radioactive for thousands of years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Hurzeler has drilled his Brighton side to play with high intensity, both on and off the ball.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
What would happen, for example, if you drilled a tunnel down through the centre of the Earth and then dropped an object into the tunnel?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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