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[dig] / dɪg /








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They dig into the research on socioeconomic integration, the tendency to conflate race and class, and the problem with asking individual parents to solve what is really a policy problem.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

But part of the problem is that some organizations aren’t necessarily taking the right strategies to dig themselves out of the trough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

But in order to survive the woods, Murphy will have to dig deep into his wartime past and rely on his own skills and smarts to make out it out intact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Or Root, who had to rummage around his garage to dig out his old captain's blazer.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

I poke my snout into a hole, dig a bit, sniff again.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

She said current digs were "really construction projects" where workers had stumbled across historical treasures.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

Just compare the girls’ cluttered digs with their pursuers’ sterile white suits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

She digs into why it’s so appealing—and why it’s also become the most abused trope on BookTok.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Part tech incubator, part self-improvement retreat, it started at $1,500 a month for room and board, classes and beachside digs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

She digs into her pocket and pulls out a wad of bills.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

“It seemed like it digged the piece,” Aitken said, as wide-eyed and sincere as he is when talking about all of his work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024

Spade never digged a pit as murky, foul, treacherous as that which gapes for the spirit of a golfer who is off his form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers in a pot of indelible ink and presented his forearm to let one square inch of hair be shaved off.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he that had received one went and digged in the earth and hid his lord's money.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men were laboring with Mattocks & Axes & Picks & rustic Grubbing Hoes — & together they digged out & built up the Breastworks & Redoubts at the Eminence of the Hill.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Workers were digging in a fossil-rich sedimentary rock unit known as the Santiago Formation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

These two shocking facts have been revealed by the diligent digging of finance professors Joshua White of Vanderbilt University and Sean Wilkoff of the University of Nevada, Reno.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

They were also digging them into the ground as deep as 3 meters to make them more survivable once discovered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s not worth digging much into the film’s story; whether you’ve seen the first movie or just have a general outline of it, you’ll be wholly unsurprised by everything that happens in its sequel.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

They were digging a hole in the top of the hill for the bottom of the obelisk to gently slide into.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

Australia were reduced to 11 men but dug in for an extraordinary win against a much-changed South Africa side as they beat the world champions 42-38 in Perth.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Aarthi Swaminathan dug further into the mortgage industry’s day-to-day developments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Southern California work crews were doing some routine excavation recently when they dug up one very strange animal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Long the go-to destination for Africa’s commercially mined gold, it is working to tap the vast quantities of metal dug up by the continent’s countless informal miners, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

He questioned women who’d heard the rappings, men who’d dug up the basement, and families who’d lived in the house before.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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