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And the league can’t dig its way out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As they were still teenagers, they were better able to squeeze through narrow spaces, crawling between concrete slabs lit only by a handheld torch or mobile phone so they could tell rescuers where to dig.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Central bank officials will dig deep into the report for evidence about what’s really going in the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

But the head of the dig discouraged him from learning this "very difficult" script, which borrowed its cuneiform alphabet from Assyrian.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Most kids like to dig in the dirt,” Mom said.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

Crabb had 10 kills and 14 digs during the match, with many of the kills coming during the second set.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

She digs into why it’s so appealing—and why it’s also become the most abused trope on BookTok.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

But judging by Barker’s shallow screenplay, I doubt that it will be too long before someone digs deeper, striking an unassailable, solid-gold classic.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Small digs have since uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals - including the bones of a hippopotamus which roamed Wales 120,000 years ago.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

She digs an apple out of her backpack.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

“It seemed like it digged the piece,” Aitken said, as wide-eyed and sincere as he is when talking about all of his work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024

Spade never digged a pit as murky, foul, treacherous as that which gapes for the spirit of a golfer who is off his form.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he that had received one went and digged in the earth and hid his lord's money.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers in a pot of indelible ink and presented his forearm to let one square inch of hair be shaved off.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men were laboring with Mattocks & Axes & Picks & rustic Grubbing Hoes — & together they digged out & built up the Breastworks & Redoubts at the Eminence of the Hill.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Monahan described the soldiers as "doing an utterly phenomenal job digging trenches and also helping us build fire breaks".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Once federal investigators started digging into these cases, however, they often fell apart.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

He kept trying to escape, digging beneath bars, testing and pulling at them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

No one knows, but all the flailing, hammering, digging and burrowing are for naught.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As if he didn’t have a worry in the world, he sat down on his rear and started digging at a flea that wasn’t even there.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The poor server desperately dug for his life in the lost and found cabinet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

But it was only through a second tunnel, dug from below, that they were able to free her.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Shellfish, bread, beer circulate around firepits dug into sand.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

It has even dug underground facilities for critical infrastructure such as command-and-control headquarters and defense factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The tightness of her grip, the way her chin dug into my shoulder.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin