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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Steel mesh is drilled into the underside to keep concrete from raining down on the public below.
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Sam Schwartz, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
On board the lander is a piece of NASA equipment called Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1, which will drill into the Moon’s surface to look for ice.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Known for a gaze that seemed to drill into our witnessing of it, going to a place deeper than most actors could reach, Hackman was capable of an intimidating brusqueness — but also a convincing tenderness.
—Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
Bare branches finger and rearrange the sky, and sometimes stars drill into it and mountains sharpen themselves against it.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Feb. 2025
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Sam Schwartz, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
On board the lander is a piece of NASA equipment called Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1, which will drill into the Moon’s surface to look for ice.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Known for a gaze that seemed to drill into our witnessing of it, going to a place deeper than most actors could reach, Hackman was capable of an intimidating brusqueness — but also a convincing tenderness.
—Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
Bare branches finger and rearrange the sky, and sometimes stars drill into it and mountains sharpen themselves against it.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Drill into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drill%20into. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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