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

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

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2023

He added the company believed one tonne of carbon can be "sunk" with six shade trees.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2023

The 12,490-tonne cruiser is the biggest Russian warship to be sunk in action since World War Two.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2022

Or else they would have given up the effort, and each man would be sunk in his own pool of silence.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin