as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
I've been dredging my memory bank, and I simply can't remember her name
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Recent Examples of dredge
The city is trying to find a close source of sand that could be dredged to help build up its eroded beaches.
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Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 8 May 2025
When the city aggressively dredged the bay in the 1960s, the landfill was covered by layers of material that had been dredged, the study said.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
The Infamous Oakmont Rakes—And A Lesson In Player Power
Oakmont’s original bunkers were filled with coarse, rocky sand dredged from the nearby Allegheny River.
—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Their inquiries revealed that the trucks carried winter storm sediment dredged from catch basins that were quickly inundated with runoff in and around fire-scarred Altadena.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 8 May 2025
When the city aggressively dredged the bay in the 1960s, the landfill was covered by layers of material that had been dredged, the study said.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
The Infamous Oakmont Rakes—And A Lesson In Player Power
Oakmont’s original bunkers were filled with coarse, rocky sand dredged from the nearby Allegheny River.
—Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Their inquiries revealed that the trucks carried winter storm sediment dredged from catch basins that were quickly inundated with runoff in and around fire-scarred Altadena.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dredge
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But cosmologists have actually been searching for holes in the standard model—holes that might lead to a more complete understanding of spacetime, because the standard model has limitations.—
Sarah Scoles,
JSTOR Daily,
31 July 2025
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Police are searching for a suspect believed to have killed four family members in rural Tennessee and then abandoned a 7-month-old baby girl in a front yard 25 miles away this week.—
Nicole Acosta,
People.com,
31 July 2025
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The researchers also found burrows dug by some of the animals, as well as scrapes on rocks where the mollusks had raked their teeth to gather up algae or bacteria for food.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 July 2025
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The Royals made news in Chicago on Wednesday morning, calling up a familiar face who’s been raking at Triple-A Omaha.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
23 July 2025
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Lutnick was carrying around a physical prototype of the Trump Card, and combing through the sign-up list to see who was interested.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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No Mongolian goats had ever had their bellies combed in its creation.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 July 2025
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Determined to find a way to make his first feature-length movie, Zhou took a multi-tiered approach to securing financing.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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As Cincinnati city leaders consider new ways to enforce the curfew for youth who stay out too late, an Enquirer review of data found police across Hamilton County have been steadily filing fewer curfew violations over the past 25 years.—
David Ferrara,
The Enquirer,
25 July 2025
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Most brands have little to no mechanism to scan for anecdotes and outliers.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Some all-in-one printers can also scan for digital copies or make photocopies while also printing normally.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
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“Dredge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dredge. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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