drill down
Britishverb
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When they do set priorities, he said, they often fail to drill down far enough; they don’t set meaningful deadlines and define what success looks or feels like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“I love the storytelling, how much Vince and I would drill down on making this as authentic as we could in terms of an everyman who has to deal with an insane situation,” Seehorn said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Was anyone skeptical that this was the story to drill down on?
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 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 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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