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she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks
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Recent Examples of dug up
And there are photos that 247Sports dug up from past Manning throws, even dating to his high school days, that show the grimace.
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Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
After the mysterious deaths of the two diamondback rattlesnakes, Cardwell dug up temperature data from a 20-year-old study in the Mojave Desert to help develop a mathematical model for measuring what might be happening inside the desert burrows.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
But for too long, that carbon has come from the wrong places—dug up from beneath the Earth in the form of oil, gas, and coal.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Authorities dug up the patio, and a dog alerted to the topsoil in that area, police have said.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Aug. 2025
The video shows grass and dirt dug up and scattered, while Bear rests inside, blissfully unaware of the extent of the upheaval.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
The press’s founder, Nicola Beauman, dug up a copy some years ago, when researching British women writers from the nineteen-thirties.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025
Northwestern hasn’t decided how tall its new building will be, or where visitors will park, and the old VA building’s remaining three-story basement needs to be dug up and demolished, said Charles Cloutier, Northwestern Medicine’s project vice president for planning and construction.
—Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
After the mysterious deaths of the two diamondback rattlesnakes, Cardwell dug up temperature data from a 20-year-old study in the Mojave Desert to help develop a mathematical model for measuring what might be happening inside the desert burrows.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
But for too long, that carbon has come from the wrong places—dug up from beneath the Earth in the form of oil, gas, and coal.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Authorities dug up the patio, and a dog alerted to the topsoil in that area, police have said.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Aug. 2025
The video shows grass and dirt dug up and scattered, while Bear rests inside, blissfully unaware of the extent of the upheaval.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
The press’s founder, Nicola Beauman, dug up a copy some years ago, when researching British women writers from the nineteen-thirties.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025
Northwestern hasn’t decided how tall its new building will be, or where visitors will park, and the old VA building’s remaining three-story basement needs to be dug up and demolished, said Charles Cloutier, Northwestern Medicine’s project vice president for planning and construction.
—Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dug up
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Denver has already landed its first founding partner, CommonSpirit Health, which also secured naming rights for the club’s performance center.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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This year the honor roll student founded The Curious Kid Collective, a community initiative that promotes literacy and creative exploration for children through storytelling and art, and was a recipient of the Fashion Scholarship Fund’s Virgil Abloh Post-Modern scholarship.—
Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
23 Sep. 2025
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But upon the couples’ return from their honeymoon, Jones learned her new husband had been diagnosed with cancer.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Founded in 2000 by Doug McCraw and Lutz Hofbauer as an arts nonprofit, FAT Village was a unique, innovative arts hub right next to the train tracks where artists showed their work, students learned figure drawing, and patrons sipped cappuccinos while surrounded by vintage books.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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Maintenance crews discovered them during a routine post-flight inspection of the plane after arriving from New York.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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The company has discovered that a mysterious font could be used to crash an iOS app and potentially tamper with the system memory.—
Senior Reporter,
PC Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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What To Know Detectives responded to the airport after workers located the body in the aircraft’s landing gear compartment during a routine maintenance check when the plane arrived after a transatlantic flight from Europe.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Grand Blanc is a small city located about 60 miles away from central Detroit.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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