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drill down

British  

verb

  1. (intr, adverb) to look at or examine something in depth

    to drill down through financial data

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

As soon as we get specific about who the we is, then we can drill down and understand what we will demand of policing.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2024

My arm reaches out to drill down into the ground to collect a rock sample.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

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