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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

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

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

In 1995 archaeologists began to excavate a site in south-east Turkey called Göbekli Tepe.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

As Chelsey excavates the details of Rika’s biography, she explores the blank spaces and lingering questions surrounding her own obscured origins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

His team excavates the rubble with care, aware that they are searching for fragments of broken humanity.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

The novel balances the history with the storytelling as it excavates the connections among these intersecting narratives.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2024

That Brahmana who excavates a tank, and he that plants trees, and he that performs sacrifices, are all worshipped in heaven even as men that are devoted to truthfulness of speech.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Thomas the T. rex was excavated from Hell Creek in Montana, a site that also produced ancient crocodilian fossils analyzed by the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 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

The process of discovering exactly how old it is may take some time, but flint tools, excavated with the fossil, suggest it could have been buried in Islandmagee as many as 3,000 years ago.

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

At Meadowcroft no archaeologist denies that many human artifacts do occur in many carefully excavated layers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Now, he's excavating his diary to write about his rural upbringing and experiences of working in Las Vegas casinos.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Schwimmer has spent more than four decades searching for, excavating, and studying fossils belonging to Deinosuchus schwimmeri.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

The actor, 39, accepted the role of the iconic composer in “Amadeus” because he was interested in excavating the man underneath the imposing historical legacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

“A lot of us could have lost our jobs over excavating the park, but she protected us all. Every man out there that night kept his job thanks to her.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson