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Video from the scene shows the team shouting "make a hole" as they wrestled the man out of the room.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

To shape each bagel, press your thumb through the center of the dough ball to make a hole.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

They melted the snow and heated the water, then used it to make a hole as wide as a dinner plate 250 meters down through the shelf.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2022

“So every time I go back with my daughter and make a hole in the ice I’m right back, I’m 4-years-old lying on the reindeer fur trying to get fish. It’s a very positive emotion.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2022

When you make a hole, there it is.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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