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or dove (into)
as in had at
to start work on energetically
the first morning back at work was spent diving into the huge pile of e-mails that had accumulated over the previous two weeks
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Verb
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That can be addressed through executive power.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Sep. 2025 -
Another person addressed the Reddit poster with empathy, but still blamed her for the incident.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
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Then and there, on fourth-and-1 at the Steelers’ 28-yard line with barely a minute left, DeMario Douglas caught a short pass, ducked behind the line to gain and got tackled.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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Top economists at Goldman Sachs and UBS tackled the subject soon after and found Powell to be mostly on the money.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
21 Sep. 2025
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In what was billed as the biggest game in the history of this border feud, Indiana attacked from the first quarter and the Illini failed to respond.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
21 Sep. 2025
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The choice to shine a light on journalism, particularly of the local variety, is especially poignant during a moment when the Fourth Estate is being diminished by macroeconomic forces and even attacked by political ones.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Once approached by the director, the women were hardly camera-shy.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
27 Sep. 2025
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An editor approached me with a tough assignment of tasting, evaluating and reviewing a chicken Caesar wrap.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Dived (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dived%20%28into%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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