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Recent Examples of posthole
In 2013, his team uncovered thousands more ancient postholes, some from 11 circular structures cut into the bedrock.
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Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
Upgrading Your Fence Game To install the screen, mark the post centers on the ground, and use a posthole digger or shovel to dig holes at least 30 in.
—Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2021
Setting the Posts Use a posthole digger to dig the holes.
—Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2020
Magazine reviewers were generally favorable to the first Bronco, but there’s a reason the truck became a rural workhorse with an accessories catalog full of snowplows and posthole diggers.
—Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 12 July 2020
Nearby, the remains of postholes mark the ghostly outlines of two longhouses.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
For more than an hour, the three humans dig postholes in the hard dirt, put up a fence and prepare the goats’ meal.
—Rachel Manteuffel, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
Upgrading Your Fence Game To install the screen, mark the post centers on the ground, and use a posthole digger or shovel to dig holes at least 30 in.
—Neal Barrett, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2021
Setting the Posts Use a posthole digger to dig the holes.
—Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2020
Magazine reviewers were generally favorable to the first Bronco, but there’s a reason the truck became a rural workhorse with an accessories catalog full of snowplows and posthole diggers.
—Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 12 July 2020
Nearby, the remains of postholes mark the ghostly outlines of two longhouses.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
For more than an hour, the three humans dig postholes in the hard dirt, put up a fence and prepare the goats’ meal.
—Rachel Manteuffel, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for posthole
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The ancient Roman city of Pompeii was buried under ash and volcanic glass during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and, since the 1700s, archaeologists have been unearthing the city that’s been frozen in time in a large, ongoing excavation.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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During their three-year excavation on the western bank of the Nile River, archaeologists also found burial shafts and pits that held wooden coffins dating back to between 1580 and 1550 B.C.E., reports the Associated Press.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Jan. 2025
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The image features Mercury’s terminator—the separation between day and night—at the center, nearly parallel to the Prokofiev, Kandinsky, Tolkien and Gordimer craters.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Jan. 2025
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The park’s second volcano, the inactive Chato Volcano collapsed thousands of years ago, creating a picturesque turquoise lagoon in its crater.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2025
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Preliminary estimates found that filling in the interstate trench would cost $2.4 billion to $3.2 billion, compared to $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion to reconfigure the freeway within its existing footprint.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
17 Jan. 2025
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In the photo, there's a line around the moon's equator that resembles the equatorial trench around the Death Star.—
Ailsa Harvey,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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In photos obtained by Metro from the scene, the white car could be seen partially underwater in a ditch while leaning to the side.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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Trucks lost control on icy roads and went spiraling into ditches, and pileups backed up traffic on interstate highways across the Midwest.—
Nazaneen Ghaffar,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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The slow movement of Earth’s mantle would eventually cause a borehole to bend and collapse.—
Andrew Gase,
Discover Magazine,
30 Nov. 2024
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The bad news is that drilling to such depths – sometimes beyond the world-record 12 km (7.5 mile) depth of the Kola borehole – is currently beyond the cutting edge of engineering, although there are some very promising projects that could solve this issue in relatively short order.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
16 Oct. 2024
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Otherwise, what appeared to be a great opportunity and a perfect fit, could wind up being a career pothole in disguise. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.—
Edward Segal,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Scarce water reduces them to extracting moisture from potholes via syringes.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
13 Jan. 2025
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And as surface temperatures rise, their cool underground burrows may become important refuges.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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Here's how to keep wild turkeys away from your yard Other Animals While you may be tempted to blame other animals such as opossums or snakes, or even coyotes for making holes or burrows in your yard, these creatures are more likely to use existing animal holes for their dens.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
18 Dec. 2024
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Usually, archaeologists make bombshell discoveries when a trowel hits a skull or other telltale bone in the confines of a cave.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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Both returned to their old village, both rebuilt their lives, and both lived with the atrocity inside of them until death, retreating back into the caves and sleeping with a saw under their mattress, as if preparing for a resumption of hostilities at any moment.—
Robert Rubsam,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Posthole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posthole. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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