1
as in hung on
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as in chowed (down)
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dug in
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They are always curled up together like two interlocking puzzle pieces.—
Maryanne Dell,
Oc Register,
27 Sep. 2025 -
That was a sport for a much-younger me — one who had more time to spend curled up in bed with an iPad.—
James Factora,
Them.,
26 Sep. 2025
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That mission is carried on today through his archive, which serves as a community-building platform and resource to create shared and public spaces for art.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
5 Oct. 2025
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Beck left the Yardbirds in 1966, and the group carried on with Page as the sole guitarist and Dreja on bass.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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Want to be kept up with all things Survivor?—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Sep. 2025
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After her first three babies came home, Ness kept up her daily visits to the hospital, bundling up her infants to sit with their sister.—
Jeff Truesdell,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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While neighbors feasted on the AI boom, Intel couldn’t seem to find its footing.—
Lila MacLellan,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Last season, Denver feasted on one of the worst divisions in football (NFC South) that accounted for 40% of their wins.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
25 Sep. 2025
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Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Air-to-water heat pumps still take heat from outside air, but instead of heating the air in a home, it’s fed into a wet central heating system which works kind of like gas central heating.—
Sara Kiley Watson,
Popular Science,
2 Oct. 2025
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Rain-fed fields in arid areas that had relied on dry farming for centuries were converted to water-intensive farms growing rice, and alfalfa.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Dug in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dug%20in. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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