dredge
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During one particularly tough patch that summer, the media managed to dredge up every stupid thing I had ever said publicly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
This is a film that serves a purpose, and Jones’ amiable writing and Aramayo’s engaging performance dredge up just enough sentimentality while keeping the movie from seeming overly instructive.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
Rescue teams from Thursday used earth moving equipment on a pontoon to dredge a channel through the sand to allow the animal to escape.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Diggers have been deployed to dredge a channel back into deeper waters.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Did I dredge up memories he'd worked hard to forget?
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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But, as big moves so often do, the journey dredges up long-buried feelings of discontent and malaise between the couple.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025
It's not clear if the mixing dredges up more haze from below or generates additional haze.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
The episode ends with a spooky sequence in one of the abandoned dredges, where Danvers and Navarro follow up on a photo suggesting that Clark has been moving around in the area.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
But other sites, such as The Gamer, said the return to the style of the franchise's earlier games "dredges up problems you may have forgotten".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
The dredges would leave an island at the center of the lagoon, to be called, simply, the Wooded Island.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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On April 19, Enchassi felt shaken by the bomb that had just exploded in Oklahoma City, and by the memories it dredged up of his childhood in Lebanon.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
For decades, the Baxter Road owners proposed various defenses to delay the inevitable, from a rock wall to dumping dredged sand, a plan rejected by fishermen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The sludge-covered statue was dredged out in 2009, cleaned up and put on display, but it took until 2023 for the Tigers finally to win the championship again.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
This suggests that powerful convection in the star's final years may have dredged up carbon from deep inside, enriching its surface and altering the type of dust it produced.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
The canals had been dredged from swampland; the picturesque waterfront hacked out of the lakeside by the shovelful.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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"We are making efforts to maintain a navigable channel as much as possible -- albeit a narrower one -- so that navigation is not completely blocked," he added of the administration's dredging operations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Husseini said this was usually a result of poor dredging: "The plants in the water are not removed from the root."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Pollution, and disturbance from anchoring, bottom trawling and dredging and coastal development have all contributed to its decline, the trust said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Channels deepened through regular dredging would greatly increase the overall volume of fresh water in the delta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The storm had made a mess of the beach, dredging up everything in the ocean and dumping it on the sand—seaweed, logs, and trash.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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