dug
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Along a desolate stretch of California desert highway, next to a ramshackle home, law enforcement officials on Wednesday dug for a second day in a search for bodies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
It’s a sign that one side has dug in their heels and feels disappointed customers are worth the risk to offer lower or higher prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“They basically dug their own grave,” Abbott said to ABC, blaming tech companies for moving too fast without consulting local stakeholders.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Researchers dug into administrative and earnings records of recent graduates from public Texas universities.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
He even dug a hole in the Finnegans’ backyard.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
In the state of Arizona, prison boss Carson McWilliams was also on the search for lethal dugs.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which has played a vital role in procuring experimental dugs and vaccines.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2020
Around the last stall came a shepherd bitch, lean and long, with heavy, hanging dugs.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
The female tigers Howl in the jungle when their dugs are dry For meat to suckle cubs.
From Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters
Towering crags, and a ridge of jagged scaurs, shut out the sunset, while a thicket of dwarf oak, and the never-absent bramble, aproned the yellow dugs of shale with brown.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
