digging
挖掘,掘进,挖地三尺,采掘
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dug [duhg] /dʌg/ or digged [digd], /dɪgd/, dig·ging.
- : to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
- : to make one's way or work by or as by removing or turning over material: to dig through the files.
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dug [duhg] /dʌg/ or digged [digd], /dɪgd/, dig·ging.
- : to break up, turn over, or loosen, as with a shovel, spade, or bulldozer.
- : to form or excavate by removing material.
- : to unearth, obtain, or remove by digging.
- : to find or discover by effort or search.
- : to poke, thrust, or force: He dug his heel into the ground.
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Examples
We evaluated about a dozen companies in the AI space and dug in deep on six of them.
A strong burst of water dug into his hand, tearing open his rubber glove and slicing the skin.
They don’t want to put themselves out of a job by doing a lot of digging and showing that, “Oh, it turns out our TV ads are unprofitable.”
Matze suggested that Parler will continue to “defy authoritarian content curation,” a dig at social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, which have tightened their rules on misinformation as the election neared.
Part of that means digging into human-wildlife relationships—and how they change as people take over more of the world.
He said he spent his time doing “Mickey Mouse make-work,” digging though old records for long-abandoned well sites.
As a kid, you were convinced that enough digging in the backyard would take you straight through to China.
For a while we sit quietly digging through pieces of fish, the tiny bones getting stuck in our teeth.
“There are various iterations of my life out there,” says Billy Hayes, digging into his Eggs Benedict at a Manhattan diner.
She said: “They said that because of a by-law I had to have the body cremated or buried within 24 hours after digging it up.”
But Grandfather Mole only shook his head impatiently, as if to say that digging a hole wouldn't help him this time.