as in to look (into)
to search through or into
we anxiously dug into the old records that we found in the 19th-century house that we were restoring
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Sydney, meanwhile, wants to continue exploring her connection to Xzavier.—
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Barrow, a prominent voice in skate culture, also hosts a series with Thrasher Magazine exploring skate spots around the world.—
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Police are investigating a shooting that happened at a Chick-fil-A in Union Township, New Jersey, on Saturday night.—
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The university has been investigating the chats since last fall, according to a federal First Amendment lawsuit filed by four of the students facing conduct charges.—
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Additional divers from the Japan Coast Guard further examined the ship.—
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His latest work, The Urgency of Indigenous Values—available via JSTOR’s Path to Open program—not only examines the origins, wisdom, and pertinence of Haudenosaunee beliefs, but also confronts the inherent limitations of such examination.—
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“Dig (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dig%20%28into%29. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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