as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
I roughly dug through the closet looking for my shoes
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Investigators were searching a remote and virtually uninhabitable area on Grindstone Mountain this week when a drone flying overhead detected something unusual in a thicket of trees.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
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Before that, security officers searched visitors' bags.—
Ray Stern,
AZCentral.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Dig (through).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dig%20%28through%29. Accessed 25 Sep. 2025.
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