drill down
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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You’ll have to hurriedly drill down to the Drive Modes menu and find the WOW icon, which you tap to engage full power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
"GreenDrill really demonstrated that, if you can logistically pull it off, there is the technology available to drill down to the bedrock and there's an analytical toolkit to then analyze it," Briner says.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2026
"These are massive issues... when you drill down into examples of how this might be applied, it has big implications for individuals, it has big implications for businesses and public services," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
I want to drill down on a legal piece of this laid out in a piece by professor David Pozen of Columbia Law School in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2025
I reach out the part of me I have come to refer to as an arm, and drill down into the surface.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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