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excavate

[eks-kuh-vayt] / ˈɛks kəˌveɪt /


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But "there were no opportunities to excavate" the suspected sites, he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

The intersection remained closed Sunday as crews worked to excavate and repair the line.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

"Large impact basins or craters excavate deep into the asteroid, which gives clues about what its interior is made of," said Namya Baijal, a doctoral candidate at the LPL and first author of the paper.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 17, 2026

The courtyard had been constructed over a landfill, and in order to start my garden, I had to excavate a great many rocks to allow the plants room to grow.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In a breezy, sun-soaked 90 minutes, Romvari excavates a lifetime of knotted, intergenerational trauma — a phrase that almost feels too heavy and too burdened by cryptic implications, given how this movie explores it.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

The Declaration’s audacious promise that all are created equal, a vow Mr. Amar excavates with the precision of an archaeologist and the flair of a storyteller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Paul White usually excavates live electricity and utility cables but on this job the former Royal Marine needed to get his head around the anatomy of a whale.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025

“Heroes” excavates a stratum of white America with the same incisive probing that “Slave Play” brought to its investigation of our country’s interracial foundation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

Accordingly the leading sapper excavates to the full depth of 4 ft.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

The park was excavated as part of a 500-day national drive launched in March, touted as Vietnam's largest push to locate some of the hundreds of thousands missing since the war.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Only the back of the head was visible to George, invisible for centuries was the beak, which was about a foot long when excavated.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Today, the excavated base of the Templo Mayor, the step pyramid topped with altars to the Aztec gods of war and rain, is an open-air archaeological site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Tiwanaku has been excavated for a century, and the more archaeologists delve into it the less there seems to be.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

In Omaha, he cycled through various careers: He started his own excavating business, then began farming, with Warren Buffett later purchasing a farm for him to work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Nepal rescuers are still excavating hydropower tunnels swamped by freezing mud, with hundreds of workers among the missing.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

The researchers are now negotiating with the construction company for permission to return to the site and continue excavating.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Thomas Heitkamp and the team that discovered Gus - named after the late Gary "Gus" Licking, a cattle rancher whose land it was found on - spent three years carefully excavating.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

The Cahokians' solution to this problem was discovered mainly by Woods, the University of Kansas archaeologist and geographer, who has spent two decades excavating Monks Mound.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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