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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delved
Verb
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Among them, a hominin femur that was excavated from the cave bears teeth marks.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
7 Jan. 2026 -
The team found multiple 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads excavated from the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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By allowing 26 second-chance points and 19 points off turnovers, the Bulls dug themselves deep on their own.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The coach, Mike McDaniel, proved a creative play-drawer, but dug an 0-3 hole in the season’s opening 12 days and beat just one winning team, Buffalo.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The less glamorous side — the poop shoveled, the low wages — is rarely shown.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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The presiding minister elected not to deliver a funeral sermon; dirt was shoveled on top of the mahogany box only three minutes after the service began.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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Although copper has been mined in the area surrounding Oak Flat off and on since the 1870s, the current struggle over the fate of the campground — deemed sacred by Apaches and other Native peoples and ecologically sensitive by environmentalists — has a history of at least 30 years.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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In addition, Toor said, Craig 1 was built near a coal seam that has had all of its coal mined.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Delved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delved. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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