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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The one bedroom, one bathroom home, sold a few years ago for close to $2 million and rented for $14,000 a month, Fox 11 LA reported, citing online data.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
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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Romero split her childhood between the sprawling metropolis of Houston and the remote Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The monk/fox combo needs to be split up, let Keon start!—
Jared Weiss,
The Athletic,
16 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 22 Jan. 2025.
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