dredge
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No one has ever seen one of these fish alive; they have turned up only by chance in a passing net or dredge.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
There is no shortage of ideas to dredge from this truth, about how we use art to cope, sometimes to our own detriment.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The state power company was working to restore electricity and authorities promised to help with home repairs and to dredge flooded streets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Free to set his dredge For trade beyond Chez Maman Now that he’s shucked off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
It’s crazy what a few lines of paint can do: I knew it would threaten the future for Dad, but I had no idea it would dredge up a long-forgotten past for the town.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Every known specimen was brought up by accident, caught in trawl nets or dredges working the seafloor between about 50 and 125 meters down.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Some of the scenes the author dredges up from his deep trawl through Stasi archives are bizarre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
Bono dredges up Paul Weller's scathing critique of their band.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
She dredges more of the chicken on a plate of flour.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
The recently released Epstein files have dredged up painful memories for Pozhidaeva.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
A World War Two bomb dredged from the water in Exmouth is to be disposed of at sea on Friday morning.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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
She rested her hands and smiled, like this had dredged up a sweet, long-lost memory.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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But the boom in new products is also dredging up some uncomfortable memories: The previous peak for thematic ETF launches arrived in 2021, as the COVID-era market mania was reaching its crescendo.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
Long Beach on Tuesday began dredging Alamitos Bay and is moving sand to the beach on the wave-battered Peninsula, using, essentially, a giant hose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
The effect is something like uncanny sketch comedy, dredging laughs from Hansen’s stilted expressions and intense demeanor, regardless of a scene’s emotional gravity.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I spent fruitless hours testing my employer’s patience, neglecting my more immediate work while dredging up zero-retweet Twitter posts from the early 2010s.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 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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