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dredge

[drej] / drɛdʒ /
VERB
deepen
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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

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

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

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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