drill down
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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"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
There’s a great scene where Carol and Zosia are both getting massages, where Carol’s trying to drill down on that.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
They then took a week to drill down through the ice to get the two deepest core samples, with the temperature dropping to minus 18C at night.
From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025
They’re also trying to drill down on the source of heavy metal concentrations in streams after wildfires by using unique isotopic fingerprints to connect the chemicals to either retardant or other sources.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2024
“I was thinking we should approach this top-down. Let’s think about the high-level functions we want—what's the heart and soul of the app? And then we can drill down from there. What do you think?”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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