excavate

But the writers wanted to go beyond Aemond’s surface, to “a different place and excavate that trauma and vulnerability.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

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

Then, a few years ago, the white man from Ibadan came to excavate.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In her 1987 essay, “The Site of Memory,” she utilized a river as a metaphor to discuss how imagination excavates forgotten histories and people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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

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

She sinks a deeper shaft than does our spider, but excavates it in the same way with similar tools, her fangs, and lines it with silk from her own body.

From Under the Maples by Burroughs, John

Boxgrove has been extensively excavated, and researchers have uncovered many tools made from flint, bone and antler there.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

Workers excavated a 3-by 4-foot area to find the source of the leak and will begin welding a patch at the leak site on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The bones were excavated over three summers, when it was warm enough for the ground to have thawed, from 2021 to 2023.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The U.S. is the only country where fossils excavated on private land can be sold, prompting a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs should be privately owned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

It had been expanded, improved upon, excavated and tunneled into by successive Masters of Stormhold, until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

For Morrison, writing fiction was a form of “literary archaeology,” excavating history, and how the past hovers over the present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Opening drawers, peering into the fridge, excavating the freezer.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026

He said Butyagin had ensured conservation and preservation of the site he was excavating.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025

At 9:00 a.m., when I reached the Camp One site, Ang Dorje,* our climbing sirdar,t was excavating platforms for our tents in the hard-frozen snow slope.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer