dug
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Joy Wiltermuth dug into the mechanics behind the decline in bond prices and rising long-term rates and professional investors’ expectations for moves that Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh can make to calm the market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Katy McMonagle, one of the archaeologists who dug the whale head out, said the fossil was difficult to move and very heavy.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Days before a Times reporter visited Matson’s property, a pack of wild dogs dug under his fence and fatally mauled his only surviving adult ostrich, Bam Bam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Carey dug deeper and saw that the hit to his score had happened after a debt collector, Tate and Kirlin, reported a supposed long-overdue payment.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
It wasn’t normal gold dug out of The Mountain in clumps and pebbles, mixed with dirt.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
In the state of Arizona, prison boss Carson McWilliams was also on the search for lethal dugs.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which has played a vital role in procuring experimental dugs and vaccines.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2020
Around the last stall came a shepherd bitch, lean and long, with heavy, hanging dugs.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Long faint streaks upon the little elevations of sand between the footmarks convinced me that it was a she dog with pendent dugs, showing that she must have had puppies not many days since.
From On the Method of Zadig by Thomas Henry Huxley
Towering crags, and a ridge of jagged scaurs, shut out the sunset, while a thicket of dwarf oak, and the never-absent bramble, aproned the yellow dugs of shale with brown.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
