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
Jenelle Riley, Variety, 15 May 2025
This isn’t the first major documentary to delve deeply into Earnhardt’s life.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2025
Future Boy delves into a specific time in Fox’s storied career: namely the year 1985, when the actor was steadily rising to fame as Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 7 May 2025
The film premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and delves into the conflict between a visionary artist seeking a utopian future and those entrenched in a regressive status quo, driven by greed, special interests and partisan conflict.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 5 May 2025
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Verb
Episode 6 of the latest season delves into the moral gray areas behind some choices.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 15 May 2025
This isn’t the first major documentary to delve deeply into Earnhardt’s life.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2025
Future Boy delves into a specific time in Fox’s storied career: namely the year 1985, when the actor was steadily rising to fame as Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 7 May 2025
The film premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and delves into the conflict between a visionary artist seeking a utopian future and those entrenched in a regressive status quo, driven by greed, special interests and partisan conflict.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delve
Noun
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The walls mimic a cave and the water echoes against the bouldered ceiling.—
Courtney Wittich,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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In Major New Sale There is no law that prevents me from putting on a scuba tank and exploring an underwater cave.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
Verb
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But figuring out what’s excavating without your permission isn’t straightforward.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
8 May 2025
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Archaeologists did not excavate the largest part of the hole but suspect more treasures may be hidden within.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2025
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Expect to jump off small waterfalls, navigate through rocky caverns, and drift beneath thousands of brilliant glowworms lighting up the cave ceiling like a night sky.—
Alexandra Gillespie,
Outside Online,
28 Apr. 2025
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In addition to three obvious places—Carlsbad, Wind Cave, and Mammoth Cave—other national parks have caverns.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
4 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Electric cables were ripped from the walls and dug from the ground in Aldy's home and in virtually every occupied building, stripped for copper.—
Emmanuel Akinwotu,
NPR,
16 May 2025
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In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a well stumbled upon a lavish villa in the ruins of Herculaneum.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Raphael Martinez Cohen and Ryan Bush’s basement studio in Maspeth, Queens, feels a bit like a grotto, with shimmering panels propped up against subterranean walls.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
30 Apr. 2025
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The restoration works enhanced the grotto’s surface and its rich and elaborate scheme, made of rustic, polychrome and multi-material mosaics featuring shells, glass pastes, semi-precious stones, stone fragments and mineral crusts.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The father pleads for his life as dirt is being shoveled in his face, unable to understand what Vahid is doing this for.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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Then, workers shovel lots and lots of coal as the bricks fire, firming them up.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
18 May 2025
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“Delve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delve. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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