as in investigation
a systematic search for the truth or facts about something
we didn't want to pry and did as little personal delving as possible
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Baglio has since been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal and internal administrative investigations, police said.
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According to a Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner death investigation report obtained by USA TODAY on July 1, Ransone's brother told an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department that the actor had a history of suicidal ideation.
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Investigators later conducted a second search warrant operation on June 23 that included excavating portions of the property for evidence of dogs buried in mass graves.
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Systematic study did not come until the 1930s, when 16-year-old John Goggin began formally surveying and excavating sites from Snapper Creek to Surfside, in the Keys and the Glades as part of a program at Yale.
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In terms of threading the needle between the experimentation and playing Lestat does before landing on a style that’s uniquely his, Lestat’s preference for musical exploration is akin to Hart’s own.
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Well, the nation came of age industrially after the Wright brothers' historic flight and has been a leader in aerospace tech and exploration ever since.
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Messi was trying to get a ball away from an Algerian player when he was seen digging his cleat into the back of the player’s calf.
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Masks are still prohibited during firefighters’ most grueling tasks — digging lines to stop fires and directly attacking flames.
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This will trigger a hard credit inquiry that will temporarily lower your credit score several points.
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To stop seeking answers is a choice to dim a light that has guided human inquiry for millennia.
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With the work now being migration, most programs are still shoveling, counting tasks and missing the structure.
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Spielberg didn’t film those terrifying closeups of the shark – like when Jaws pops up as Brody is shoveling the bloody chump slick in the water — until Day 92.
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The agency has not indicated when that review will conclude, and the final scope of any patent could change during the examination process.
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The findings came after Crump and the child's family pushed for an independent examination and called for transparency and accountability in the investigation into the June 14 shooting.
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During the fall of 2019, a delegation of American diplomats and national-security officials arrived in Nuuk to discuss Greenland’s mineral resources, with a particular focus on mining strategic rare-earth minerals.
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How can mining of the Ogallala in Colorado be slowed?
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“Delving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delving. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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