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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This, in turn, encourages you to soothe your worries — potentially by exploring them through creative initiatives.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Mar. 2026 -
Buoyed by Indian-leaning instrumentation, and a haunting beat-switching production, the Argentine rapper explores themes of life, death and ambition in his freewheeling verse.—
Isabela Raygoza,
Billboard,
28 Feb. 2026
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The county medical examiner was investigating the cause of death.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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The work investigates the structural and morphological stability of a state-of-the-art polymeric acceptor (PMA) PY-IT through a range of light-soaking and thermal relaxation measurements.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Feb. 2026
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The test examined everything from the launch sequence to the deployment and separation of the reentry vehicles.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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The senator also challenged how deeply UConn examined Agwunobi’s record running other hospitals in Georgia, Florida, California and Washington state, as well as his brief tenure on the board of WellCare, a Florida company at the center of a massive Medicaid scandal nearly 20 years ago.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Dig (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dig%20%28into%29. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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