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dredge

verb as in deepen

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“We are in a significant moment of looking at trade diversification,” said Craig Bell Estabrooks, CEO of Port Saint John, which has spent heavily dredging channels and expanding container yards.

Their reconciliation came just as Stiller was beginning to sift through decades of nostalgia, dredging up memories about how he felt when his parents weren’t present for parts of his childhood.

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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.

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And how was his newly dredged lake filling with water?

The recent trial dredged up old memories, with some evidence suggesting gang loyalties pushed Echeverria and Pineda to commit the grisly crime — while prosecutor David Ayvazian alleged a more sinister motive.

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