excavate
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Inmates dug through rubble to excavate their own jailers, said relatives of current prisoners.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
In 2022, Sereno returned with a 100-person team and 64 Nigerien guards to excavate the "earth-shattering site".
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
The team at Bournemouth University have applied to Historic England for a grant to excavate the timbers on the presumption it is part of the protected wreck.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026
Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who led the painstaking 20-year effort to excavate and study the skeleton, initially identified Little Foot as Australopithecus prometheus when it was formally introduced in 2017.
From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026
Each year, Japanese archaeologists excavate over 10,000 digs and employ up to 50,000 field workers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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