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dredge

[drej] / drɛdʒ /
VERB
deepen
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There is no shortage of ideas to dredge from this truth, about how we use art to cope, sometimes to our own detriment.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Online critics were quick to dredge up comments by a former Argentinian leader as proof of the country’s bias.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Free to set his dredge For trade beyond Chez Maman Now that he’s shucked off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Rescue teams from Thursday used earth moving equipment on a pontoon to dredge a channel through the sand to allow the animal to escape.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

“I told the lawyer that Phil and I didn’t want you to dredge it all up again only to be called a liar.”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Some of the scenes the author dredges up from his deep trawl through Stasi archives are bizarre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

But, as big moves so often do, the journey dredges up long-buried feelings of discontent and malaise between the couple.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2025

Sometimes what’s left behind are the dredges of history and time, which Mason resurrects onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

Why must every group have a prodigal troublemaker whose return dredges up these old memories?

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

He concentrated on the fair’s central lagoon, which his dredges soon would begin carving from the Jackson Park shore.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

And, because phosphate is a low-value commodity, vast quantities must be dredged to make operations viable, she said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

On April 19, Enchassi felt shaken by the bomb that had just exploded in Oklahoma City, and by the memories it dredged up of his childhood in Lebanon.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026

For decades, the Baxter Road owners proposed various defenses to delay the inevitable, from a rock wall to dumping dredged sand, a plan rejected by fishermen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

A World War Two bomb dredged from the water in Exmouth is to be disposed of at sea on Friday morning.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

She rested her hands and smiled, like this had dredged up a sweet, long-lost memory.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

The effect is something like uncanny sketch comedy, dredging laughs from Hansen’s stilted expressions and intense demeanor, regardless of a scene’s emotional gravity.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

I spent fruitless hours testing my employer’s patience, neglecting my more immediate work while dredging up zero-retweet Twitter posts from the early 2010s.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Harbour officials have agreed to meet with residents who are worried about sand and silt from dredging being left on a beach.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

These projects should increase demand for dredging engineering services and vessel utilization, supporting the marine services group’s businesses over the longer term.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The storm had made a mess of the beach, dredging up everything in the ocean and dumping it on the sand—seaweed, logs, and trash.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen




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