as in excavated
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burrowed (into)
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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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Then, take a page out of The Bash’s playbook, and rent an ice pop food truck for the day. 7.—
Maggie Griswold,
StyleCaster,
1 Apr. 2025
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So if the Jags’ billionaire owner wants to rent our stadium for a season, that sounds like a potential win-win.—
Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Apr. 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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Growing up on the East Coast and splitting my time between New York and Charleston, I was surrounded by Old World America and these architectural buildings that held so much history, and had such a strong presence about them.—
Chelsea Davis,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The western teams should split and form a new conference with new rules, money and a tournament.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Burrowed (into).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burrowed%20%28into%29. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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