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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

But others were wildcatting operations that processed and burned waste left over from recycling without regard to human health or the environment.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2020

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

We didn't know it was wildcatting until after he had tried to repair it.

From Stand by for Mars! by Glanzman, Louis