as in to dig
to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth
workmen are excavating a long tunnel that will eventually replace the aboveground expressway
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According to Windsor police, the man admitted to excavating abalone from rocks along the Mendocino County coast near the town of Elk for personal consumption.
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Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Read More | 3,000-year-old ruins and artifacts found at massive gold mine in Egypt, photos show
Archaeologists excavating the Sukari gold mine in southeastern Egypt uncovered a 3,000-year-old mining camp.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Only the Illinois State Museum, an institution that ProPublica has reported on in-depth, came close to repatriating as many, with the transfer of more than 1,320 remains excavated from a single site.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 25 Feb. 2025
Finally, in 2023, an underwater recovery team excavated the crash site.
—Stephen Smith, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Read More | 3,000-year-old ruins and artifacts found at massive gold mine in Egypt, photos show
Archaeologists excavating the Sukari gold mine in southeastern Egypt uncovered a 3,000-year-old mining camp.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Only the Illinois State Museum, an institution that ProPublica has reported on in-depth, came close to repatriating as many, with the transfer of more than 1,320 remains excavated from a single site.
—Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 25 Feb. 2025
Finally, in 2023, an underwater recovery team excavated the crash site.
—Stephen Smith, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
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