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

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 Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George

The Andes mountains will give us that opportunity, where, instead of grey tin, we may delve for yellow gold.

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne

If there is nothing better than to delve for clothes and wooden palaces, it were as well that there should be more moulting.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey