as in excavated
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In a reversal of the previous example, students volunteering at an archaeological dig in the French town of Eu stumbled onto a message in a bottle written by a French archaeologist who’d excavated that same site 200 years earlier.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024 -
The 12-sided metal object is one of more than 100 excavated throughout Europe.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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When two Black students attempted to rent a Bridgeport apartment, Daley let his neighbors run them out.—
Erik Wallenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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It’s been on and off the market since it was built and has been rented for a hefty price during the ski season.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
17 Jan. 2025
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The action begins not in Ancient Egypt but in the 1920s, when the archaeologist Howard Carter penetrated King Tut’s tomb.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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The implications of this advance have not yet penetrated the public consciousness.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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An additional 10 percent of those sales, plus the sales of books that are not earmarked for a specific store, gets split up and distributed to every store on Bookshop's platform.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
28 Jan. 2025
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Former chair and party finance director Fred Whitaker said understanding why some voters split their tickets and show ideological inconsistencies is crucial to making gains.—
Hanna Kang,
Orange County Register,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Burrowed (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrowed%20%28into%29. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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