as in found
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks
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Recent Examples of dug up
Trump is attempting to fire Cook over alleged mortgage fraud, which was dug up by Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who is now also the acting director of national intelligence.
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Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
2 July 2026
The advocates later went onto shelter property and dug up dog remains, the affidavit said.
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ABC News,
28 June 2026
After the execution, his body was first thrown into a shallow grave, but later dug up, dismembered, and his remains were dissolved in acid.
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Emile Nuh,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Despite her expertise, renovating her own space came with some apprehension — and dug up past pain.
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Stacy Lambe,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
The 2016 law creating the nonpartisan America250 commission mandated that a time capsule be buried in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026, and dug up 250 years later in 2276.
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Holly Ramer,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
In earlier seasons, producers and contestants never had to think about what could be dug up from a contestant's social media history.
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Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
The director uses her loose crime movie template to chronicle a place still trapped in its troubled past — a past that gets dug up like all the ancient artifacts excavated by Veska and her crew — while facing a future of inertia and decline.
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Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2026
The fossil economy was built on extraction and combustion, where fuels are dug up, shipped, burned and mostly wasted as heat; the electric economy is built on manufacturing, software, grids, devices and efficiency, where technologies improve, scale and connect.
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Ingmar Rentzhog,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
2 July 2026
The advocates later went onto shelter property and dug up dog remains, the affidavit said.
—
ABC News,
28 June 2026
After the execution, his body was first thrown into a shallow grave, but later dug up, dismembered, and his remains were dissolved in acid.
—
Emile Nuh,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Despite her expertise, renovating her own space came with some apprehension — and dug up past pain.
—
Stacy Lambe,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
The 2016 law creating the nonpartisan America250 commission mandated that a time capsule be buried in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026, and dug up 250 years later in 2276.
—
Holly Ramer,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
In earlier seasons, producers and contestants never had to think about what could be dug up from a contestant's social media history.
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Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
The director uses her loose crime movie template to chronicle a place still trapped in its troubled past — a past that gets dug up like all the ancient artifacts excavated by Veska and her crew — while facing a future of inertia and decline.
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Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2026
The fossil economy was built on extraction and combustion, where fuels are dug up, shipped, burned and mostly wasted as heat; the electric economy is built on manufacturing, software, grids, devices and efficiency, where technologies improve, scale and connect.
—
Ingmar Rentzhog,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dug up
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America, whose Constitution was formulated by white men, struggled to live up to its founding ideals in the days of slavery and displacement of Native Americans.
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Dioz was co-founded by Johnny, 44, and his brother Tony in 2006.
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Investigators on the case were able to track the Dodge Ram to the dealership and learned that Fleming purchased it in cash and traded in the Dodge Challenger.
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Since this World Cup began, how many people have learned about Cape Verde, the small nation off the west coast of Africa?
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Youssef said investigators conducting background checks during the Long Beach investigation discovered that one occupant allegedly had an outstanding warrant for battery and assault.
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Researchers discovered that eleven specific words are frequently prominently included and seem to defy the assumption that AI is merely randomly composing a story for you.
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Hours later, as the bodies of the children were being handed over to their families, scenes of anguish unfolded outside hospitals and in the neighborhood on the outskirts of Lahore where the private tutoring center was located in a house.
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Troopers, assisted by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office and the Fort Worth Police Department, located the suspect nearby and took him into custody without incident.
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