DELVED Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

delved

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past tense of delve

as in excavated

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The women were originally excavated during the late 19th century from within the funerary complex at Dahshur, an ancient Egyptian necropolis featuring some of the oldest, largest, and best preserved pyramids in Giza.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 July 2026
When Princess Ita’s final resting place was first excavated by French archeologist Jacques de Morgan in the late 1800s, Ita was somewhat of an afterthought, Hashesh says.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 17 July 2026

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The new numbers are interesting all by themselves, but Win Column data man Rahul Deshpande dug deeper to compare several local programs year-over-year.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
But once again, Spain dug deep, getting clearances and clean tackles as the clock ticked down.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026

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Those mounds of soil — not apparent in the photograph — were consistent with digging a hole as dirt is shoveled out and dumped along the edge.

— Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
Quasars are the extremely active supermassive black holes at the heart of some galaxies, furiously feeding on gas that is being shoveled towards their maw, and growing as a result of this voracious feeding.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 12 June 2026

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Is the Moon destined to become an interstellar gas station, a resource to be mined and sold?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
The film was originally positioned for the Makar Sankranti and Pongal holiday corridor, a window Vijay had mined successfully across a career spanning 69 lead roles.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 July 2026

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