uncover
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As a result, there's a lot to uncover in the music and lyrics.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
They found Homer, but it took weeks to uncover Langley, who had been crushed beneath one of his own towering piles.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
But about five years ago, a university committee began to uncover how standard accounting measures were painting a misleading financial picture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In their 2021 book Peril, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa uncover a broader angle on Graham’s ponying up to power.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Maybe if she checked word by word she would uncover more typos, or something else that would help her solve the puzzle once and for all.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
If the inspection uncovers major issues, that information can be used as leverage to either exit the contract or negotiate a lower price or other concessions.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026
A conservator uncovers the shard, which bears an intense blue figure of a skylark — evidence, at least to the reader, that Alouette’s recipe endured, and a symbol of how both she and Sasha escaped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
“No matter who you are,” Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang said on Monday, “as long as our investigation uncovers evidence, we will arrest you.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
But sometimes, what he uncovers is so unusual that its value lies purely in revealing how strange the universe can be.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2025
The “essential unity of science,” as he described it, means that “an advance of the horizon of knowledge in any direction uncovers territory of all the sciences.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
They uncovered thousands of structural variants, including DNA segments that had been duplicated, deleted, or rearranged.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
More than 20 years later, a Kyoto University research team has returned to the fossils and uncovered new details about their identity.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Flanagan uncovered the damage when she arrived for work.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
An "enormously important" 18th Century painting by the Scottish artist Katherine Read has been uncovered by the BBC's Fake or Fortune.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
His mind ran through all the research he’d uncovered in the last couple of days.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
At one point, Weist describes uncovering that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani maintained a fine-art photography practice while simultaneously waging a highly public censorship battle against the Brooklyn Museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
By studying superfluid helium, a substance that displays unusual quantum behavior, scientists are uncovering patterns that could improve climate modeling, storm prediction, and aviation safety.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
That previous study, entitled “The Level and Persistence of Growth Rates,” found that “the odds of an investor successfully uncovering the next stellar growth stock are about the same as correctly calling coin tosses.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Operating to Taiwan’s east allows China to study the waters there, potentially uncovering hiding spots for enemy submarines, Dahm said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
In the summer of 1949, the only American agents capable of uncovering the USSR's true motives were hunkered down in a closely guarded office in Arlington Hall.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
