delved

verb

past tense of delve
as in excavated

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  1. excavated
  2. dug
  3. shoveled
  4. mined
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  • Genetic analysis also resolved longstanding questions about the Golden Man, whose Scythian burial mound, called a kurgan, dates back to around 400 BC to 300 BC and was excavated in 1969 at a site in Kazakhstan.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • City is made from clay, sand, and rock, all excavated from the innards of the site and reshaped.
    — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
Definition of excavated
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  • Then Rubye dug a hole in the cool sand and returned the arrowhead.
    — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
  • The international travel-media platform has dug deep to uncover which parks will leave you flat, and which will create lifelong memories (hopefully of the happy kind).
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
Definition of dug
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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
Definition of shoveled
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  • Since being mined, the stone has been viewed as part of the country’s collective narrative.
    — Kate Matthams, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Achieving and verifying high-purity output from secondary feedstocks, rather than virgin mined ore, is a technically demanding problem that has limited the domestic recycling sector for years.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
Definition of mined
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