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dug out

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verb

past tense of dig out
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dugout
Noun
Kim joins six or seven other infielders in a Dodgers dugout that doesn't need to roster so many players. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025 Cox was at least in the Braves front office for five seasons (1986-90) before returning to the dugout. Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2025 He was joined in the dugout by club captain Seamus Coleman, who had initially expected to be on the substitutes’ bench. Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025 After then-Blaugrana head coach Xavi Hernandez won the mid-season competition as his first piece of silverware in the Barca dugout at the turn of 2023, Vinicius Jr. scored the fastest hat trick in El Clasico in its following edition to help secure a 4-1 final win. Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for dugout 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dugout
Noun
  • This quest to connect the Pacific peoples will take her even further than before, introducing a quirky crew who each embody ancient Polynesian knowledge: canoe building, farming, and storytelling.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The 2028 Games will be spread throughout Southern California and stretch as far south as Temecula — about 90 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles — and as far east as Oklahoma City, about 1,300 miles away, where softball and canoe slalom will be held.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Spoiler alert: The twist here is all of this is taking place in a massive underground bunker with no explanation as to what got everyone down there in the first place.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, Paradise is yet another show about creating or living in a bunker of apocalypse survivors.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the African American community in and around Westminster.
    Diane Boettcher, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The first settlement in McLeod County was Glencoe, which was founded in June 1855 by a party of settlers led by Martin McLeod.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Spurgeon sustained an injury during the play and exited the game.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Despite this, the number of animals in shelters remains high—in the first half of 2024, 322,000 more pets entered shelters than exited them.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After that, the cast headed out on their first mission, which required them to paddle a rowboat around the loch and capture a maximum of $40,000 while leaving two contestants at each of the five pontoons along the way, which also left them vulnerable to be the first one murdered.
    Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In another, overlooking a Han River marina, there are three interlocking layers: water (most of the picture), hilly horizon, and, at left, a scalloped edge of rowboats and storage sheds that pulls your eyes downward.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And to allay the fears of brownstone-dwellers: A cornice is not a parapet, so most brownstones don’t actually have parapets.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2024
  • About 100 parapet caps were taken from a bridge near Ryecroft Lane and tossed into Harpeth River sometime on Aug. 7, Franklin Police said.
    Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Aug. 2024
Verb
  • Villalobos said the teens learned about the role of an officer in the courtroom.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Half of them learned the language in the morning and returned in the evening to have their memory tested.
    Maureen Mackey, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Multiple other execs in the C-suite departed in the time since, most recently president and chief operating officer Chris Ruble, who was terminated in December.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 Jan. 2025
  • One surprisingly active club has been the Athletics, who have departed Oakland and will play their home games in Sacramento in the near term.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Dugout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dugout. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

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