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excavate

verb as in dig up

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The government puts out regular data on everything from exports of excavating machinery to sales at shoe stores.

The Navy has led cleanup efforts, excavating contaminated soil and demolishing buildings.

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Her pieces on two books, “Black England” and “Black Manhattan,” excavate hidden histories of Black resistance and the painful compromises brokered to move forward.

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A few historians have excavated rights in the Middle Ages.

Robert W. Fieseler is a journalist investigating marginalized groups and a scholar excavating forgotten histories.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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