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as in canoe
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as in bunker
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as in found
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
she dug her old art supplies out of the basement
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as in exited
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 dugout
Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
There were none of those doubts in the Dodgers’ dugout.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Adult female flies can lay up to 400 eggs at a time, and each larva in a human patient has to be physically dug out from infected flesh.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
If that sounds at all like a newcomer to the Giants’ dugout late last season, well, he was quoted in the piece.
—Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
There were none of those doubts in the Dodgers’ dugout.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
Chinese astronauts dug out tasty treats for the mid-autumn festival, which is a harvest event held every year between mid-September and early October.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Adult female flies can lay up to 400 eggs at a time, and each larva in a human patient has to be physically dug out from infected flesh.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dugout
Noun
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Both men were wearing life jackets, but were separated when their canoe capsized.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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No death-defying rapids here on this lazy, looping stretch easily paddled by families in canoes.—
Stephen Trimble,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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Tucked beneath the Golden Gate on the site of the former Fort Baker military base, Cavallo Point is part eco-resort, part historical reenactment, part corporate retreat bunker.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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Many of them have received JEEP alerts (Joint Emergency Evacuation Plan) notifying them of their designation and their quickest point of access to the bunker, which is built to withstand a nuclear explosion.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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Jared Isaacman, who founded the payments company Shift4, has organized, funded and commanded two private astronaut missions to Earth orbit, both of them using SpaceX hardware.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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All the company had emitted since Gates founded it in 1975 would be gone, the full footprint washed away.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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His departure comes as Michael Michele, one of the series’ leads, exited late last week, as Deadline revealed exclusively.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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When Holliday exited in 1980 for her own comedy, Ladd was brought in as Belle Dupree, a tough-as-nails waitress once romantically linked to diner owner Mel (Vic Tayback).—
Chris Koseluk,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Alice Austen and Gertrude Tate in a rowboat in Scotland in 1903.Courtesy Collection of Alice Austen House But when the 1929 stock market crash caught Austen in the crosshairs, her financial standing plummeted.—
Margaret Hetherman,
NBC news,
19 Oct. 2025
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Another sweet photo showed the couple spending time together in a rowboat on the lake.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
12 Oct. 2025
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There was certainly a whole thing about not putting your head above the parapet.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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Roan performs on a set that looks like a massive Gothic castle with a drawbridge, parapets and a throne.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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That can only be learned by practice in all kinds of conditions, according to Stewart.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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Silver said the league learned about the March 2023 game from gambling regulators and betting companies.—
Shakeia Taylor,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Michaelson, who departed Fox’s Los Angeles affiliate last summer, makes the case for a West Coast-centric show.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Unlike the innumerable photons from sunlight, perhaps a dozen per second trickle through my cornea from this distant messenger, having departed it years ago, colliding with my photoreceptors and ending their unlikely journey.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Dugout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dugout. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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