dug
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But water collected in the trench that was dug for it as they were working to compact the soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
They dug into the results for “occupations where we absolutely need them in society,” but where “we know the earnings are really low,” like education and social work, Velez said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Acaster described him as a "loose cannon", while Jama said: "I want to save him, even though he's dug himself the biggest hole imaginable."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The court dug up a historical artifact and used it to decide the case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It was almost sunup when I arrived at the hole Papa and I had dug.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest - I too awaited the expected guest.
From The Waste Land by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
We are far indeed, from the period, when it was believed that the animals were formed at the dugs of their dams.
From Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
