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- noun Plural form of
well . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
well .
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Examples
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All Arab-speaking people wish to count neither more nor less than seven wells here, and so create the name _Seba_; but even in this way the etymology would not hold good, for the term _seven wells_ would be _Seba
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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The history of many of the wells is as follows: -- When oil is entered the gas begins to raise it up over the top of the boring, increasing gradually in force until it projects it into the air often to a height of 40 ft. or 50 ft.; then alternately diminishing and increasing in force at regular intervals, but without any cessation in the flow for a long time.
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Rike believes that rust from steel in old, abandoned oil and gas wells is not particularly dangerous.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain Susan Buchanan 2010
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Injected into these wells is a toxic mix of 245 chemicals shown by epidemiologists to cause rare cancers, infertility, brain damage, autism, and other neurological disorders.
Wonk Room » $199.5 Million Spent On Energy Ads Since Obama’s Inauguration 2009
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Rike believes that rust from steel in old, abandoned oil and gas wells is not particularly dangerous.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain Susan Buchanan 2010
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Rike believes that rust from steel in old, abandoned oil and gas wells is not particularly dangerous.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain Susan Buchanan 2010
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Brunette, olive-skinned, oval-faced, her hair was blue-black with its blackness and her eyes were twin wells of black.
Chapter 17 2010
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A shut in wells also represent a total loss for oil companies who get nothing for their expenditures.
Archive 2009-01-18 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009
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Jim Cardegee awoke, choking, bewildered, staring down the twin wells of steel.
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Rike believes that rust from steel in old, abandoned oil and gas wells is not particularly dangerous.
Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain Susan Buchanan 2010
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