Example Sentences
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Most of the publicly available geothermal data was collected when oil-and-gas companies were wildcatting across the West between 1960 and 1980.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Go far enough back in baseball’s history – into the game’s actual disreputable, exploitive, wildcatting past, not the shelf-stable official one – and the same story repeats itself one generation after another.
From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2017
A 1980s tale of the wildcatting days of personal computing and network connectivity, the series set its first two seasons in Texas, surprisingly but not ahistorically.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2016
It was a kind of mini-Manhattan project, with the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer played by the wildcatting engineer-entrepreneur George P. Mitchell.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2012
They cool the reactant fuel to keep it from getting too hot and wildcatting.
From Treachery in Outer Space by Glanzman, Louis
