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
If Angela Colicchio, a Port Hueneme resident of six years, has her way, this effort will be sunk too.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2022
Workers prepare the site of the second mineshaft to be sunk at Oyu Tolgoi in the South Gobi desert in Mongolia November 10, 2007.
From Reuters • Jun. 8, 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
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