delve for

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“The Debrief” wrapped up its run in January when Sherman departed BoF, but the back catalog is well worth the delve for anyone seeking a better understanding of modern fashion.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

“The younger generation doesn’t delve for credentials,” she says.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2015

One might delve for a twelve month, and not gather together the half of all, that is condensed, in Dr. Belknap’s replies to Judge Tucker’s inquiries, Mass. H. C., iv.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

With no knowledge of nature or art, with no theory or practice of social order, he began to dig and to delve for the preservation of life.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

The sophist’s rope of cobweb he shall twine; Mope o’er the schoolman’s peevish page; or mourn, And delve for life, in Mammon’s dirty mine; Sneak with the scoundrel fox, or grunt with glutton swine.

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James