dredged

verb

Definition of dredgednext
past tense of dredge
as in searched
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something I've been dredging my memory bank, and I simply can't remember her name

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  1. searched
  2. found
  3. combed
  4. surveyed
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  • After recapturing Jerusalem’s Holy Temple, which had been converted into a place of idol worship, the website says, the Maccabees searched for pure oil with which to light the Temple menorah.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Data taken from Google Trends in early December revealed the most uniquely searched for Christmas cookie.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • Robinson—whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lemmon—founded the anti-Islam English Defence League and has become a major far-right figure in the U.K., attracting thousands of supporters to rallies and garnering widespread criticism for his divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Finkelstein’s grandfather, Alfred Wiener, founded the Wiener Library, London’s most important Holocaust archive, and Finkelstein served on the commission that recommended a new memorial.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of found
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  • Diamant and Kafka combed the park for it to no avail.
    Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Even better, the researchers at GreenLight Biosciences combed through bioinformatic databases to find just the right gene to disrupt to avoid collateral damage to honeybees and other harmless species.
    Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of combed
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  • Out of the 21 industries surveyed, 17 logged higher activity than the month before, including aviation, transportation and telecommunications.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Eighty-four percent of those surveyed reported using the Ukrainian language more, and 55 percent more frequently wore national symbols and colors.
    Anton Grushetskyi, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of surveyed
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