dredge

The dredge that caught it was sampling for small shelled animals known as brachiopods during a natural history expedition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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

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

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

He would crack dumb jokes and tell stories and dredge up bits of trivia, anything to make her smile.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

Having been gobbled up like a meal worm, Jay dredges up flashbacks of his father’s lectures in whale anatomy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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

Such was the lack of food, another crewmate told the court that they had resorted to eating fish and octopus and fish caught by the dredges to survive.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

She dredges more of the chicken on a plate of flour.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

And, because phosphate is a low-value commodity, vast quantities must be dredged to make operations viable, she said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

“As in Basel, shallow-water sections in Germany should also be dredged, particularly in the German Kaub area,” Minsch says, referring to the pinch point in the Rhine Valley in northwestern Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

And Pollux has tears running down his cheeks because no doubt my freaky song has dredged up some terrible incident in his life.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

Locals say dredging for the port already damaged coral reefs, resulting in a decline in marine life and tourist interest at a popular snorkeling site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

He knew its flaws, its many flaws, but believed that with a lot of deft dredging and sculpting, the park could be transformed into a landscape unlike any that had ever seated an exposition.

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