hole
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The party is in a hole, and getting out of it will fall to either Joe Fagan or Michael Marra.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
She discovered Awad’s fiction when she went down a BookTube dark academia genre-themed rabbit hole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
This is not to say there’s skulduggery afoot, just a massive hole in an otherwise clear-eyed and affecting documentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
XRISM's high-precision measurements showed that the extremely hot gas around the black hole is far from motionless.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The pipe rambled across past the mud dauber wasps’ nest to a hole in the chimney.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The few notes he gives, according to people who have worked with him, are about logical holes that bother his analytical mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
Reigning Masters champion McIlroy's hopes of winning a record-equalling eighth Race to Dubai title were also buoyed by the withdrawal of Patrick Reed after nine holes.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Instead, the simulations indicate that Little Red Dots could arise naturally from the environment of the young cosmos, where black holes were able to grow at extraordinary rates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
As issues mounted, patients began to escape—mostly through holes in the barbed-wire fence—and the nuns were forced to report them to authorities.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
It demands teamwork, whether aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier or holed up in a bombed-out Iraqi city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
With the light fading on the Bernardus course in the Netherlands, Jennifer Kupcho holed a nerve-shredding putt from the edge of the 18th green to snatch a point and leave the teams tied at 8-8.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Bouchier added 143 for the first wicket with Sophia Dunkley, who made 73, which laid the perfect platform before the centurion holed out to long-on with just 59 runs needed.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
After the deaths of their parents, the aging bluebloods holed up in their stately Harlem rowhouse, once a picture of Gilded Age polish, and became a public curiosity.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
He’s bringing water to the workers holed up behind the locked fence of Huntington Beach power plant.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Ciganda continued her fine form from Friday, holing two long-range putts on the front nine to put the European pairing in the box seat.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
To write, Rosales went off the grid, holing up in a cabin in the woods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The sight of Player holing birdie putts and celebrating by lifting one young fan into his arms, contrasted superbly with nine-year-old Frankie Fleetwood's focus and determination to clear the water and hit the ninth green.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 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 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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