excavate

But the writers wanted to go beyond Aemond’s surface, to “a different place and excavate that trauma and vulnerability.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

In 2022, Sereno returned with a 100-person team and 64 Nigerien guards to excavate the "earth-shattering site".

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who led the painstaking 20-year effort to excavate and study the skeleton, initially identified Little Foot as Australopithecus prometheus when it was formally introduced in 2017.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

I stuck my arm elbow-deep into the bird to excavate any meat clinging to the rib cage.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Here, Travolta excavates truth from fiction, and fiction from truth; in his eyes, reality is manufactured with a sprinkle of both.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Declaration’s audacious promise that all are created equal, a vow Mr. Amar excavates with the precision of an archaeologist and the flair of a storyteller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Paul White usually excavates live electricity and utility cables but on this job the former Royal Marine needed to get his head around the anatomy of a whale.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025

Like 20th Century Fox’s “Hidden Figures,” and HBO’s “Something the Lord Made,” “The Six Triple Eight” excavates a thrilling story that has been long buried, in part by the prejudice of its time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

The birds breed in colonies; each pair excavates its own nest by means of beak and claw.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar

Entire mountain faces have been excavated and roads, industrial infrastructure and settlements have transformed surrounding valleys.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Thomas the T. rex was excavated from Hell Creek in Montana, a site that also produced ancient crocodilian fossils analyzed by the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The bulk of the canal's construction work involved widening, deepening and modifying existing waterways, while a small section had to be excavated, Xinhua said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

It began in late 1981 when McKee and his Marauders were confident they had excavated most of the artifacts.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Nepal rescuers are still excavating hydropower tunnels swamped by freezing mud, with hundreds of workers among the missing.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

To direct this floodwater away from the tombs, we are systematically removing debris and excavating the area, using archaeological techniques that ensure all historical information is preserved.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Now, he's excavating his diary to write about his rural upbringing and experiences of working in Las Vegas casinos.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The actor, 39, accepted the role of the iconic composer in “Amadeus” because he was interested in excavating the man underneath the imposing historical legacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

In 2010 another lost sibling was rescued from oblivion, when scientists excavating the Denisova Cave in Siberia discovered a fossilised finger bone.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari