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Synonyms for drilling
ˈdrɪl ɪŋdrilling
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Princeton's WordNet
drilling, boringnoun
the act of drilling
Synonyms:
boring, oil productionboring, drilling, oil productionnoun
the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
Synonyms:
oil production, boring
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "drilling":
drill, borehole, digging, perforation, drill-through, forage, rig, piercing, pierce, excavation, dig, extraction, boring, forages, prospecting, wellbore
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#7143 | drill | |
#7788 | dig | |
#8356 | boring | |
#8602 | extraction | |
#8975 | pierce | |
#8995 | drilling | |
#11018 | piercing | |
#14311 | rig | |
#14969 | digging | |
#17366 | excavation | |
#22123 | forage | |
#25130 | prospecting | |
#42048 | borehole | |
#44792 | perforation | |
#70368 | forages | |
#86923 | wellbore |
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We let them pick the music to take the focus off the fact that I am drilling a hole in their head, and cutting their scalp and that sort of thing.
I couldn’t do anything. I ran, I shadowboxed, I hit the bag with my right hand and I kicked the bag. That’s all I could do, and technique, like just drilling technique really light because hand was just completely f----d up. And I also, so I cut the ligament in my finger, so I have what they call a boutonniere deformity. I can actually have surgery if I wanted to, but I don’t feel like doing that.
The whole world is looking at how Putin is able to negotiate this, and what he’s able to get away with, we have authoritarians around the world, and they take this, and they see it as an opportunity because, again, lack of resolve. What we need to do right now? We need to demonstrate resolve and the best thing we could do right now is re-open the Keystone XL Pipeline, start drilling again in America, make ourselves energy independent [and] lower the price of global energy — that would take a lot of the air out of the sails of Vladimir Putin.
Concerns over financial stability in the energy sector and a further fall in drilling capex are headwinds to growth against an already fragile global economic backdrop.
It's years of just drilling it in that everybody is beautiful, everybody deserves respect but you have a certain tone to your skin that for some reason is going to make you a threat - so here are the things that you're going to need to do to survive and this is real, it's my duty as his mom to prepare him.
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