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dig

[dig] / dɪg /








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They send teams who can dig into the ground and douse it with water.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Swanson had to dig up multiple documents to kick-start his refund claims at DHL and FedEx, register with U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

But if you dig a bit deeper, things are looking far less rosy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

"You could come and dig my garden, Allun," piped up Sara, his mother.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Rebecca Onion digs into the movie’s many twists and turns, culminating in “the psychological-thriller equivalent of a plot quadruple axel.”

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

Leon Popek, an archaeologist with Poland’s Institute of National Memory that oversees the digs, said only 850 Polish victims have been found so far—perhaps 1% of the total killed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

They are the items most likely to be on student insurance claims - after being stolen from digs, cars, public transport and bars and restaurants.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

My dad takes a deep breath and digs in deep.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

“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

And also involves a sort of treasure hunt and some digging in the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Chinese-backed Yancoal has eight coal mines across Australia and told investors it set a production record digging up 19.8 million tonnes of saleable coal in the first half of 2026, a four percent lift.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

If you think that, you aren’t digging deep enough.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

His brother Fintan told BBC News NI there was "talk that he was digging into collusion, digging into the finances of the LVF but there was never any proof".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“And the sweet potatoes will be safe,” Nim said, “when we feel like digging them.”

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

"For those 11 residents' groups dug up from the 1990s to threaten parades, go ahead, go ahead, open them all up," Bryson added.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“The episodes I was proudest of were where you dug something out from inside of your history and your heart.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

They dug into the results for “occupations where we absolutely need them in society,” but where “we know the earnings are really low,” like education and social work, Velez said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

The court dug up a historical artifact and used it to decide the case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

He was holding the dish with the shepherd’s pie, serving spoon at the ready, even though Coal had barely dug into what he had.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste




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