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drill down

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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She doesn’t really drill down that hard.

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But “Depeche Mode: M” is different and poignant, using its 2023 “Memento Mori” tour to drill down into specifically Mexican conceptions of death and remembrance in the wake of the death of co-founder Andy “Fletch” Fletcher.

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“It’s for us to drill down on the granular details of exactly what the Ukrainians need to give them a sense of security in the future… We were fully committed to be there for that purpose.”

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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.

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Sherrilyn Ifill: But that would then require them to drill down into the particular excesses that they think these district courts engaged in, because presumably at some point in the future they’ll want to actually support something that district courts have done.

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