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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
excavate .
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Examples
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The North American Gila Woodpecker excavates a living space within saguaro cacti.
Photo-Op: Nest Fest 2011
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Addressing us, his audience, Ãlmez excavates Tubal, a minor but freighted Shakespearean creation, the only friend of Merchant's notorious Semitic villain, Shylock.
George Heymont: Brush Up Your Shakespeare! (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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In Sundance's The Mortified Sessions 8/7c, interviewer David Nadelberg excavates celebrities' childhood photos, diaries, letters and other potentially embarrassing mementos to reveal what made them who they are today.
The Monday Guide to TV: A Holiday Closer, Charlie Brown and More Country Awards 2011
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The second excavates the phenomenon of what the police term "mispers" – missing persons, people who sometimes have chosen to disappear and sometimes have not – among them, the victims of mass-murderer Frederick West.
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Addressing us, his audience, Ölmez excavates Tubal, a minor but freighted Shakespearean creation, the only friend of Merchant's notorious Semitic villain, Shylock.
George Heymont: Brush Up Your Shakespeare! (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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Ocean/Corbis In "Future Babble," a delicious gathering of such useless conjecture, Dan Gardner samples from the finest experts known to mankind or at least to the mass media and excavates a trove of detailed research to show how a seemingly rational activity—calculating the probability of something happening—has turned into a continuous farce.
Prophets of Error Trevor Butterworth 2011
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Along the way, Rhys excavates the bizarre history of the Welsh immigrants who sailed to Argentina in the late 18th century, expecting an English-free Utopia, but finding only arid desert.
Separado! 2010
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In his rather dry understated way, he excavates the reality behind the babbling Babel of 24/7 corporate news, and places long-buried truths on the table for us to examine.
Johann Hari: The Enduring Truth-Telling of Noam Chomsky 2010
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Could I tell Jay that the world is chaos and an artful novel satisfies our human desire for order, or that the novel excavates meaning from the rubble of incomprehension?
'Mentor,' a memoir by Tom Grimes, reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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Hodgkin similarly excavates a cross-section of grass but we have no way ofknowing if he has portrayed an entire lawn, or a two-centimetre patch.
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