as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
I've been dredging my memory bank, and I simply can't remember her name
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Recent Examples of dredge
The Denver Post in 2022 published a three-part investigation that documented, for the first time, how local villagers dredged these valuable antiquities from a secret vault at the Plai Bat II temple in northeast Thailand and sold them to a burgeoning collector named Douglas Latchford.
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Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2025
The first is and underwater underwater dredging machine which is remotely operated to dredge the river floor for marine and ecosystem studies, disaster prevention, renewable energy, environmental conservation, and eventually underwater mining.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Miners hauled in hydraulic equipment to dig and dredge and strip the mountains, polluting the runoff so badly that in 1874, the flatlanders who depended on that water went to court to stop the despoiling.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The marinated chicken then gets dredged into a flour mixture including spices like garlic and onion powder, paprika, seasoned salt, and cayenne pepper before getting deep fried.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2024
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Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2025
The first is and underwater underwater dredging machine which is remotely operated to dredge the river floor for marine and ecosystem studies, disaster prevention, renewable energy, environmental conservation, and eventually underwater mining.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Miners hauled in hydraulic equipment to dig and dredge and strip the mountains, polluting the runoff so badly that in 1874, the flatlanders who depended on that water went to court to stop the despoiling.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The marinated chicken then gets dredged into a flour mixture including spices like garlic and onion powder, paprika, seasoned salt, and cayenne pepper before getting deep fried.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dredge
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That authenticity is what Williamson has long been searching for in his work.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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Despite nearly two years of searching and over a dozen reports from neighbors, the Animal Services Division continued to list the block as an area of monitoring emphasis.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee,
Kansas City Star,
10 Feb. 2025
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The Lilac fire spread from the edge of nearby I-15 in a southwesterly direction and raked across the rear of a tan-colored home on the eastern side of Ranchos Ladera Road, burning up to the property’s patio.—
Paul Sisson,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Dash Day had himself quite a time, raking the trap, drawing in the sand and playing with a golf ball while his dad posed for pictures with a trophy and a surfboard — and a check for $1.13 million.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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It has also been decided, unwisely, that Bridget has somehow lost the desire or perhaps the ability to ever comb her hair.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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Musk and his team, under Trump’s direction, have been entering government agencies, combing through books, and instructing civil servants to find ways to reduce government spending and cut out any dead weight.—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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McNeeley gave UConn its first lead since the score was 2-0 with a pair of free throws, and Ball found Reed again for a two-handed slam that put the Huskies up four with 1:11 to go.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
19 Feb. 2025
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ZiPS, a popular player projection model found on FanGraphs, predicts Goldschmidt will hit .250/.325/.437 with 23 homers, 81 RBI, a 116 wRC+ and 2.2 WAR in 2025.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Doing so literally means signing his life away, as Mickey 1 (the OG version of his character) agrees to have his body scanned and his memories archived, so he can be replicated — and recycled — ad infinitum, every time an unlucky copy hits a snag.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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The woman banned from the store was caught on a Walmart camera using an old watch barcode battery to scan all her items for $1 while using the self-checkout machine, the police officer wrote in the affidavit.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Dredge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dredge. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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