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drill

[dril] / drɪl /






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I’d been drilled on this particular event over and over again.

From Literature

About 70% of this will come from new wells and developments, and it plans to drill 250 exploration wells, most of them near existing fields.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's amazing because we're not only helping the American drilling companies, but also the Venezuelan private companies in the oil and gas sector to buy quality US-made drill rigs," he said.

From Barron's

From the non-striker's end he watched two wickets, failed to get on strike, then drilled the first ball of Madushanka's final over into the hands of cover.

From BBC

As in their previous investigations, the researchers examined Ediacaran age rocks collected from drill cores and outcrops in Oman, western India, and Siberia.

From Science Daily