dig
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"It's a new Villa and it was a big test for the new players to dig in," McGinn told Uefa.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It’s an acting-class exercise designed to make you listen, react and dig into your character’s truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Up to this point, Judge’s filmography was exceedingly kind, willing to dig deeper and find humanity in an entire universe of schmucks and mediocrities.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The Boring Company, which builds machines that it claims can dig underground more cheaply than traditional construction firms, recently closed an investment round that values the company at around $20 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
“George, I almost lost it when you said you’d just dig a hole to hide from a polar bear,” he said.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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She said current digs were "really construction projects" where workers had stumbled across historical treasures.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
But it’s not because the Sparks’ ownership wanted to do what Mark Davis did with the Las Vegas Aces when he was the first owner to provide fancy new digs in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ridley Scott returns with post-apocalyptic film ‘The Dog Stars,’ found-footage horror comes to Broadway with ‘Paranormal Activity,’ a posthumous release digs into Prince’s archives, and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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
I watch as Kendrick throws his backpack over one shoulder and walks up the aisle while Mr. Stanley digs around in his desk drawer for the hall pass.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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“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
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
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But he that had received one went and digged in the earth and hid his lord's money.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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The restaurant opens early and closes late, and no matter what time I show up, there are always people digging into giant bowls of soup.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
There, two pesky reporters were digging into Watergate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
A man was apparently digging around inside a dumpster when the driver picked it up and emptied it into the back of the truck, the department said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"It adds to the atmosphere of a record. But for the last three albums, I've pretty much led a structured life, and I'm really digging it."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Livingston began digging in the pile of stuff.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
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Dix estimated that they had dug about 60m from the entrance by now, and they would need to dig another 150m more to reach the hydropower station located deep inside the mountain.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Joy Wiltermuth dug into the mechanics behind the decline in bond prices and rising long-term rates and professional investors’ expectations for moves that Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh can make to calm the market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Matson traces its roots to one night three years ago when, he claims, a pit bull dug under his fence and killed an ostrich as she slept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Brooke Olshefski, a 35-year-old insurance account manager, dug a festival crop top out of the back of her closet for the occasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
I dug them out, walked them around, and fed them.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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