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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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Since arriving Wednesday in La Guaira, Sosa has scrambled to pull people from the rubble with his old mining pickaxe and shovel in the absence of national rescue teams.
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The crash site was forest in 1944, but it was later excavated for rice cultivation, Fong told Jackson.
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While Freddy was in Boston mourning Germany’s defeat, online sleuths excavated the least-savory tidbits from his X posting history.
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“Hollow (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollow%20%28out%29. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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