drilled
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Despite being drilled 23 years apart, the samples revealed strikingly similar patterns of oxygen isotopes, which scientists use to reconstruct past environmental conditions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 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
During a particularly severe one in the 1950s, many farmers in New Mexico and Texas drilled wells to supplement their river water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
In the past, diesel fuel was poured around the bases of the trees, and grounds staff said last month that they suspected copper sulfate was dumped into the holes drilled near the roots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
He went sailing along, spinning this way and that, drilled with a trillion bullets of rain.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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