drill into
phrasal verb
drilled into; drilling into; drills into
: to force (something) to be learned very well by (someone) by repeating it again and again
Our teacher drilled the lesson into our heads.
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But coaches also used Young’s five-week stretch as Andy Dalton’s backup to refine Young’s footwork and drill into him the importance of urgency in the huddle and pre-snap operation, which Dalton helped demonstrate.
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Joseph Person, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
Movies that insist on drilling into human pain can become sadistic by themselves.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
Plants can develop secondary infections when borers drill into their stems.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2024
And her professors at Juilliard — particularly renowned playwrights Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang — drilled into her the importance of drawing on the personal.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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Joseph Person, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
Movies that insist on drilling into human pain can become sadistic by themselves.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
Plants can develop secondary infections when borers drill into their stems.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2024
And her professors at Juilliard — particularly renowned playwrights Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang — drilled into her the importance of drawing on the personal.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Drill into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drill%20into. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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