as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
I've been dredging my memory bank, and I simply can't remember her name
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as in to find
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
I might be able to dredge up some old baby clothes to donate
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Recent Examples of dredge
Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2025
Batiquitos Lagoon, also in Carlsbad, is dredged less often as environmental mitigation for the Port of Los Angeles.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
Colombia could have avoided the specter of a landlocked Leticia had dredged the smaller branch of the Amazon River that now flows past the town.
—John Otis, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
The idea is to dredge out 100,000 cubic yards of sand and place it on county land nearby, where it can be cleaned, sorted and picked up by trucks to haul to San Clemente.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
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The project would extend Osceola's slack-water harbor by 3,000 feet by dredging out 620,000 cubic yards of material.
—Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2025
Batiquitos Lagoon, also in Carlsbad, is dredged less often as environmental mitigation for the Port of Los Angeles.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
Colombia could have avoided the specter of a landlocked Leticia had dredged the smaller branch of the Amazon River that now flows past the town.
—John Otis, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
The idea is to dredge out 100,000 cubic yards of sand and place it on county land nearby, where it can be cleaned, sorted and picked up by trucks to haul to San Clemente.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Dredge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dredge. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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