dredged

verb

Definition of dredgednext
past tense of dredge
as in searched
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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  1. searched
  2. found
  3. combed
  4. surveyed
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  • The Lane County Sheriff’s Office added that multiple drones and aircraft searched the area from above while dozens of personnel looked by vehicle or on foot.
    David Chiu, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But Horowitz's report noted that the partisan affiliation of the staffers was not imbalanced -- 21 staffers whose records were searched were Democrats, 20 were Republicans, and two worked in nonpartisan positions.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of searched
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  • Driven by a desire to fill the standard of care gaps, Dr. Halpert founded Immunocine Cancer Center.
    William Mullane, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Roksanda found a white knight in The Brand Group, which purchased the fashion label founded in 2005.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of found
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  • Since then, groups in the Netherlands and Belgium have combed through medical records to examine outcomes of pregnant patients with these types of abnormal results.
    ByJennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Think tanks the Health Foundation and the Nuffield Trust combed through official waiting time data for emergency and planned care, as well as a government survey on hospital waits, to find out who was being worst affected by delays.
    Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Definition of combed
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  • Level Access’s report, which surveyed more than 1,400 professionals across industries including more than 500 decision-makers from the European market, found that 73% of survey respondents affirmed that the EAA applies to their organization.
    Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Nearly 40% of White women had received any family planning services in the year before they were surveyed, compared with about 35% of Black women and 32% of Hispanic women, according to the survey data from 2022 and 2023.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of surveyed
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