as in cave
a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface
a poem in which a medieval knight encounters a mysterious beauty in a darkened delve
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Recent Examples of delve
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Players start off delving through a dungeon fighting rust beasts, when Stamp runs into a ragtag group of youngsters who call their gang BB.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Kost Failures to Act This investigation of the largest government scandal in New Hampshire’s history delves into an abuse case in which nearly 1,300 individuals have sued the state for neglecting to protect them from mistreatment in youth facilities.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
The ramp gets steeper as players delve further into the game.
—Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
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The aim is to leverage the capabilities of generative AI and LLMs to go beyond answering generic across-the-board questions and be able to delve into the depths of domain-specific questions.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Players start off delving through a dungeon fighting rust beasts, when Stamp runs into a ragtag group of youngsters who call their gang BB.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Kost Failures to Act This investigation of the largest government scandal in New Hampshire’s history delves into an abuse case in which nearly 1,300 individuals have sued the state for neglecting to protect them from mistreatment in youth facilities.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
The ramp gets steeper as players delve further into the game.
—Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delve
Noun
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Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in southern France.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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These artifacts, found in a cave considered part of the underworld, may be connected to ideas of creation and fertility.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The thrill of the rush is what got kids on the run as their parents tried to direct them to areas not yet excavated.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2025
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Underground is a contemporary interpretation of the Roman baths excavated in nearby Cimiez, with a warm tepidarium, a hot caldarium, and a frigidarium, or cold plunge.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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The valley blanketed in trees and speckled with caves and caverns combines with the peaks and hills surrounding it to create an outdoor lover’s paradise.—
Jennifer Stewart Kornegay,
Southern Living,
1 Apr. 2025
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Over eons, water dissolved the calcium carbonate, etching deep fissures and caverns into the stone.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The companies involved in the cable installation project called Missouri’s 811 information line and shared their intent to dig before April 9.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2025
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Using a travel pill organizer can save space and keep you from having to dig around your bag for all of your vitamins and medicine.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Apr. 2025
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Housed at Villa d’Este in Tivoli — a UNESCO World Heritage site located a one-hour drive from Rome — the grotto will reopen after nearly half a century of being closed and two years of restoration work.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
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Experience the Swiss-Italian culture by dining at a traditional grotto, taking a boat tour to Morcote, or simply wandering through the old town’s sleepy piazzas.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Over the years, players, including Durham, sometimes gave Wickers money to supplement his income from washing windows, shoveling snow and other odd jobs.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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There’s also evidence that the ship’s engineers left the boilers on, shoveling coal into the furnaces to keep electricity running.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Delve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delve. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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