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she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks
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After the mysterious deaths of the two diamondback rattlesnakes, Cardwell dug up temperature data from a 20-year-old study in the Mojave Desert to help develop a mathematical model for measuring what might be happening inside the desert burrows.
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John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Others want to mine valuable metals on asteroids, like AstroForge, to reduce the need to dig up the Earth.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
By chance, Bogdan digs up a gravesite that has bones laid on top of it—bones belonging to Peter Mercer.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
There's also a third body involved when contractor Bodgan digs up a bonus set of bones in the cemetery, providing a potential motive for the Ventham killing and creating a third mystery to solve in the process.
—EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Others want to mine valuable metals on asteroids, like AstroForge, to reduce the need to dig up the Earth.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
By chance, Bogdan digs up a gravesite that has bones laid on top of it—bones belonging to Peter Mercer.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
There's also a third body involved when contractor Bodgan digs up a bonus set of bones in the cemetery, providing a potential motive for the Ventham killing and creating a third mystery to solve in the process.
—EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Dig up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dig%20up. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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