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- verb Present participle of
fossick .
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Examples
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Of course it is, it's all there, it was just a matter of fossicking, which is what producer Paul Clarke did.
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The veteran natural history broadcaster said he learned many of his skills "fossicking" or searching around the countryside for birds eggs, insects and flowers.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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With the added benefit, at least for me, of reading the word “fossicking [12]” for the first time.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Weekend Edition: 2-27 » Print 2010
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With the added benefit, at least for me, of reading the word “fossicking” for the first time.
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It takes a bit of fossicking about and it is sometimes painful to go back to the root of the criticism and relive the actual words again.
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Coe enacts every rite of the format, fossicking through photos and talking to genealogists, digging up a couple of vaguely interesting ancestors.
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To satisfy this part of his character he still spends time in the School of Scottish Studies archive in Edinburgh, fossicking for myth and music.
Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010
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We sat and had coffee and the last of our conversations. cassiphone and I went fossicking for alarming souvenirs but found none.
Back home girliejones 2010
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On a blistering day last month, Zahim Jehad was fossicking around a scrap yard in Basra amid hundreds of live artillery shells.
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I've been fossicking a bit for some more interesting settings, which is how Hearts and the monkey story came about.
blah day mikandra 2008
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