drilling platform

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a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well

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How to use drilling platform in a sentence

Kickstarter is one start-up platform that seems to have realized the danger.
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He created his own crowd-funding platform for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which has yet to be launched.
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And it must make sure that the platform of debate where we can freely exchange ideas is safe and sound.
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People using it effectively opened a secret channel on an a public platform.
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Think of the embarrassing subway platform or mid-office “adjustment” debacles you could avoid!
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A gentleman got out of a carriage before it stopped, and fell between the rail and the platform.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
Analysis and practice in preparation are the steps over which we must climb to the platform of power.
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No, Jack is not much to look at, except when he wakes up—I have seen him quite transfigured on the platform.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
In the next place, as I can find no other persons who will come forward on my platform, I am bound to offer myself everywhere.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
When I am an old maid I am going to mount the platform and preach the training of the voice in childhood.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton