hole
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The researchers say this could improve scientists' understanding of dynamic events such as black hole mergers and evaporation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
I didn't really hole putts this week, it felt like my usual putting just wasn't there, but overall a decent week.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
In the end, it was another tenacious, all-around performance from the current World No. 1, who now has five major titles and doesn’t really have a hole in his game, other than fatigue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
On the 16th hole, after sending his approach into heavy rough, McIlroy said in exasperation: "Oh my god. I'm so bad at golf."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The sand is never poured down the hole; the black powder and fuse sit exposed at the bottom.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
In the early 1970s, Stephen Hawking and other researchers discovered surprising connections between the laws of thermodynamics, which describe familiar processes such as heating water on a stove, and the behavior of black holes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
“They played a lot of golf together,” ample time together for discussion, whether through nine or 18 holes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Scot began with a birdie but four bogeys in the following nine holes effectively ended his hopes.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
He famously explained how streaming media left massive holes in studio spreadsheets on an episode of “Hot Ones.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Hundreds of mice poured from trees and holes in the ground, through windows and under door cracks.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The June cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel came with a few Hezbollah men still holed up in two tunnels outside the city of Nabatiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was not costly in terms of runs, because Archer removed Henry before Phillips holed out.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
He hit wedge over where the gallery had been standing and holed an 18-foot putt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Musk spent much of the summer of 2025 holed up at his AI startup, trying to catch up in the AI arms race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
The cabin was high on my list of possibilities, but it doesn’t look anything like the cabin I’d holed myself up in.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
He capitalised fully, holing the subsequent 30-foot putt for an improbable birdie.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
That same night, Israel got a tip from ordinary Iranians that the leader of the feared Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani, was holing up with his deputies in a tent in a wooded area in Tehran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
But after holing up Sunday in his apartment 90 steps from the beach in the historic Zona Romantica, Eure was ready to venture outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
Co-leader after 36 holes, Ko made bogey at the 12th and double bogey at the par-three 13th to stumble back before holing out from a bunker to birdie 14.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
But a newspaper reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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