excavate

My work is really focused on how we excavate and investigate those tools.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

Inmates dug through rubble to excavate their own jailers, said relatives of current prisoners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 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 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

Here, Travolta excavates truth from fiction, and fiction from truth; in his eyes, reality is manufactured with a sprinkle of both.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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

It makes a hole as large as a small lead pencil, directly into the trunk or limbs, and excavates long tunnels into the heart wood.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Capitalizing on the wartime chaos of the 1940s, Bardo excavated tomb after tomb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Although the quarry was discovered in 1992 and excavated through 2019, many of the fossils recovered there had never been formally described and remained largely unknown to science.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Archaeologists later excavated a sword still in its scabbard, decorated straps, buckles, rings, ornaments and chariot wheel axle caps.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Near the central village of Baziafla, flanked by tall grass, the pit was excavated over several weeks with spades, pickaxes and crushers, before the miners were driven out of town by the local authorities.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Using this figure, Kirkby went back to the ancient cobs excavated from Tehuacan Valley and tried to estimate how much grain per acre they would have yielded.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

More than 100 volunteers were involved in excavating test pits which uncovered what were thought to be the medieval boundary walls of the hospital.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

Face our fear and root it out, even if it means excavating the hideous rot of actual history?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

On July 3, 1908, archaeologists excavating the ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology.

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