delve
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Netflix has revealed that the new installment will delve deeper into the Addams family history, while the newly released Paris image suggests that Wednesday’s next adventure could take her beyond Nevermore Academy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
We also delve into the divorce memoir sending women to their financial advisers, how to outsmart AI productivity trackers and the sleepy Portuguese beach town that might not stay that way for long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
"We like to have a little delve into other people's lives – in particular where there's a shocking 'before and after', or they're able to watch the process," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Depraved art even allows us “to safely delve into taboo subjects.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Susan tilted her head to delve the mystery, could not, and turned back to the job of packing canvas carriers with food, hoods, and jesses for the eagle, hawks, owls, and falcons.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Christine Ji delves into the debate over morality and technology.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The Fox NFL Sunday co-host and Hall of Fame quarterback met with the Los Angeles Times recently to discuss his new book, “Looking for Terry,” which delves into divorce and his struggle with depression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
It also delves into his personal life, including his difficult childhood and the 14 known children he has fathered with a series of women.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
In a sweeping, very entertaining investigative account, Dan Kois delves into the history and benefits of bar soap and why it’s worth fighting for.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Unlike Prescott, he understands the philosophy of history and delves beneath the surface to search out and reveal the hidden causes of events.
From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck
A 2025 report by the American Credit Union Mortgage Association, a national nonprofit trade group, delved into these application figures and concluded that credit unions reported significantly lower denial rates than other lenders.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
As I delved into the issue, I had to change staff around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
As Amicus delved into popular constitutionalism—the process by which ordinary people shape constitutional meaning—we came across Lyle Cherneff’s work on a largely forgotten American story that captures the concept in action.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The prosecution of Thomas Goldstein, co-founder of SCOTUSblog, delved into his double-life as high-stakes poker player.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
As the decade wore on and they delved more deeply into the intricacies of atomic structure, their picture of the natural world grew only murkier.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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This team should retain a lot of their positivity, but do so without delving into the recklessness and inflexibility we saw before.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“I took care of mom for 20 years before her dementia started,” she said, delving into some of the long history of their mother’s manic-depressive behavior.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
There are four galleries, each delving into a specific period: “Early Life to Becoming a Patriot 1732-1775”; “Revolutionary Leader 1775-1783”; “Mount Vernon to the Constitution 1784-1788”; “Presidency to Final Act 1789-1799.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Perhaps because he was better at delving into the social and urban fabric than at creating popular spectacle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
In the subway, we imagined we were delving into the netherworld to fight monsters and to commune with the spirits of our ancestors.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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