dredge
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In the longer term, Germany needs to dredge deeper navigation channels and develop a new class of low-draft ships, argued Bilger, a member of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU/CSU bloc.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 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
This is a film that serves a purpose, and Jones’ amiable writing and Aramayo’s engaging performance dredge up just enough sentimentality while keeping the movie from seeming overly instructive.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
Diggers have been deployed to dredge a channel back into deeper waters.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
They’re negotiating with the Merpeople to dredge the lake.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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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
Bono dredges up Paul Weller's scathing critique of their band.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
The episode ends with a spooky sequence in one of the abandoned dredges, where Danvers and Navarro follow up on a photo suggesting that Clark has been moving around in the area.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
I don’t know why my brain dredges up that image, but when the lights flash on, I jump.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Instead, firefighters and public works employees were covering the site inch by inch with soil dredged from a nearby site.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 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
This suggests that powerful convection in the star's final years may have dredged up carbon from deep inside, enriching its surface and altering the type of dust it produced.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
He dredged up an old hatred to test himself, and he found the hatred gone.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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"We are making efforts to maintain a navigable channel as much as possible -- albeit a narrower one -- so that navigation is not completely blocked," he added of the administration's dredging operations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Pollution, and disturbance from anchoring, bottom trawling and dredging and coastal development have all contributed to its decline, the trust said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
The extraordinary speed of this dredging operation is probably some kind of world record.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Within days, dredging ships followed—the start of China’s first island-building project in nearly a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Over the North Sea in Britain’s Victorian empire, artists, writers and composers were dredging Albion’s Arthurian roots, too.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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