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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

Online critics were quick to dredge up comments by a former Argentinian leader as proof of the country’s bias.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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

Beginning in the late 19th century, California farmers regularly used their own equipment to dredge the delta channels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

I dredge a crumpled twenty-dollar bill from my jeans pocket, but Oscar holds up a hand.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

It's not clear if the mixing dredges up more haze from below or generates additional haze.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024

In a statement, USC said, “This lawsuit, which dredges up events that occurred as many as 10 years ago, has no legal merit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

He concentrated on the fair’s central lagoon, which his dredges soon would begin carving from the Jackson Park shore.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Instead, firefighters and public works employees were covering the site inch by inch with soil dredged from a nearby site.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

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

"Not only were oysters harvested for food from the earliest days of colonization, but the reefs themselves were dredged and the shells crushed and burned to make lime for cement and mortar," she says.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026

In an interview with an NPR podcast earlier this month she said the latest release of files dredged up "painful times in my marriage".

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

He’d had it dredged, and then built out the docks and the quay, and he’d had to mortgage the Crow Club to do it.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Then, there was the issue of building the project on Alaska’s North Slope, dredging an enormous amount of seabed and securing icebreaker tankers to chart paths in the Arctic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

Letha, dredging your mind, taking out memories and swallowing them whole.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor


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