digging (away)

present participle of dig (away)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for digging (away)
Verb
  • Even with Muchová so clearly struggling, Osaka faced some weird jeopardy down the stretch.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • However, even people who have these more 'substantial' degrees are struggling.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • During that season Clark was laboring to teach all his defensive linemen a new technique to use, and players would have to film themselves working on it, and send it into the coaches.
    Omar Kelly August 23, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Wall Street economists are fixated on identifying tariff effects, yet stocks either celebrated or shrugged off three warm and sticky inflation readings this week, laboring to hold near record highs.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The occasion is an event held by the Women’s Coaching Alliance, a group striving to diversify football staffs.
    Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Drown is now striving to be able to flip sleeping clients without waking them up.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Former director of football Kevin Thelwell and Dan Purdy, two key drivers of the initial interest in Rohl, have since left the club and are working for Rangers in Scotland.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • He's Delivered the Opposite | Opinion Venezuela has a unified and organized opposition that has been working tirelessly to prepare for this moment.
    Kristina Foltz, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Brian Cashman gets it all the time, but good, from Yankee fans; for them, banging away at Cashman on social media feels like the real national pastime.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Digging (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digging%20%28away%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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