digging out

verb

present participle of dig out
1
as in finding
to come upon after searching, study, or effort she dug her old art supplies out of the basement

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2
as in departing
to leave a place often for another without saying where she was going, the young woman dug out early the next morning

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Recent Examples of digging out At the other end, Diabaté kept digging out offensive rebounds or drawing fouls. — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 21 Oct. 2026 While roof rats make their homes in trees, rafters, and attics, Norway rats look for lower ground, digging out interconnected systems of tunnels and nesting spaces. — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 17 Oct. 2026 Jac Caglianone sent both runners home, digging out an 81 mph changeup from righty Bailey Ober and giving the Royals a 2-0 lead. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026 Weeding tools or an old screwdriver will speed up digging out roots. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 June 2026 I'mPhaedra Trethan, digging out my old Rod Brind'Amour Flyers jersey and congratulating the coach on his team's Stanley Cup Finals win. — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 15 June 2026 Ahead of the finish, Vegas continued its second-period dominance in the series, digging out of a 3-1 hole and making a bit of history in the process; for the first time in Stanley Cup Final history, four games have featured a team rallying from a multi-goal deficit to at least tie the game. — Michael Russo, New York Times, 12 June 2026 By analogy, a software engineer who has been digging out a basement with a shovel gets handed a bulldozer. — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 Before this handy feature, passengers would have the whole boarding process held up with their bags splayed out in the aisle, digging out one tiny item. — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for digging out
  1. finding
  2. departing
  3. learning
  4. exiting
  5. discovering
  6. moving
  7. locating
  8. running along
Verb
  • Drone technology and artificial intelligence are rapidly reshaping modern warfare, but the world's biggest defense contractors are finding that demand for tanks, fighter jets and other traditional military equipment remains strong.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
  • How Image Processing Reveals the Solar Corona Capturing the corona’s delicate structures means finding a way to show its brightest and faintest features in the same image.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of finding
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said Friday afternoon that all four Moscow airports -- Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky -- stopped flights arriving and departing for security reasons.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Paramount+ head of originals Jane Wiseman is departing the streamer as the post-merger combination of it and HBO Max takes shape.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of departing
Verb
  • Regardless, there’s a fascinating swing from FOMO (fear of missing out) to JOMO (joy of missing out), and today’s women are learning that alone time is important for personal growth.
    — Cheryl Fenton, Flow Space, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Reflecting on the workshop’s impact, one participant said the SkyWater tour was excellent, the instructors were great, and the teachers enjoyed learning from like-minded educators.
    — Debra Gulick, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of learning
Verb
  • Treter, who previously missed two games because of injury, was listed as out on Thursday’s availability report after exiting the loss to Wisconsin early.
    — Sean Campbell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Big names from the old Paramount and WBD stables exiting include Dan Barnes, Michael Bishara, Jamie Cooke, Domenic DiMeglio, Marco Nobili, Pank Patel and Juan Sola.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of exiting
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  • For Guitarricadelafuente, this means that many people are discovering him for the first time, through something entirely different from his music.
    — Franchesca Guim, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2026
  • For homeowners, that means shopping around, comparing coverage, discovering discounts and making improvements to help roofs withstand hail and severe weather.
    — Derek James, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of discovering
Verb
  • This reduces computational requirements, allowing the system to operate on a moving robot with limited processing resources.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Over the last few decades, the percentage of children diagnosed with myopia has moved steadily upward, while age at diagnosis appears to be moving down.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of moving
Verb
  • These systems are optimized for combat-ready maritime patrol in detecting, locating and tracking surface and undersea targets.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Only a fraction meet the conditions necessary for exploitation, but given the ease and speed of testing each one, locating vulnerable devices won’t require much effort or time.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of locating
Verb
  • Later, she’s entertained by a mouse running along the baseboard of one of London’s more elegant restaurants.
    — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Spanning 40 miles as the crow flies, the Suwalki Gap is a corridor of land, running along the Polish/Lithuanian border, that connects the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Belarus.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of running along

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“Digging out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digging%20out. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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