scoops (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of scoop (out)
as in excavates

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  1. excavates
  2. shovels
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  • Badger excavates or exposes buried infrastructure through a highly pressurized water and vacuum system and uses about 20,000 gallons of water per day, officials have said.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
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  • Tyler and Cora steady a western redbud sapling as Atticus holds up a bag of soil and Eliza shovels out the fragrant earth.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • For hours under the blistering sun, Raúl Servín shovels and digs his way through days filled with pain, hope and usually frustration.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
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“Scoops (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoops%20%28out%29. Accessed 17 Jul. 2026.

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