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1. excavation, digging, dignoun

   the act of digging

   "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"

   Synonyms:
   barb, dig, excavation, jab, slam, shot, shaft, archeological site, jibe, gibe, mining

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1. diggingnoun

   Synonyms:
   excavation, exhumation (digging up)

   Associated words:
   fossorial, fodient

How to use digging in a sentence?

1. President Barack Obama:

   I've got to listen to my critics say I'm often too soft on turkeys, and I'm sure the press is digging into whether or not the turkeys I've pardoned have really re-dedicated their lives to being good turkey citizens.

2. Isidro Consunji:

   Three bodies have been recovered as of this time and digging continues to look for six others, that's as far as I know. Some of our mining equipment has also been damaged. We don't have the complete details yet.

3. Antonio Guterres:

   Nature is angry. And we fool ourselves if we think we can fool nature, because nature always strikes back, and around the world nature is striking back with fury, there is a cost to everything. But the biggest cost is doing nothing. The biggest cost is subsidising a dying fossil fuel industry, building more and more coal plants, and denying what is plain as day: that we are in a deep climate hole, and to get out we must first stop digging.

4. Ashley Cuffia:

   It all depends on how much digging they did and if they cut down a whole bunch of trees since they do depend on tree sap to survive.

5. Oliver Contreras/Pool/Sipa:

   Liberal reporters frankly supported the mandate, so they never did much digging. But as of January, there were 31,000 fewer full-time airline workers than before COVID. And while we were told pretty much everyone was complying, it turns out a lot of people were also quitting or retiring early, it's gotten so bad that JetBlue is basically begging flight attendants to take on some open shifts. Alaska Airlines is paying double to take on extra work, but it was the number of retiring pilots that is the most alarming. Obviously, no pilots means no flights.

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