as in cave
a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface
a poem in which a medieval knight encounters a mysterious beauty in a darkened delve
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Recent Examples of delve
Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2025
YouTube Much of Chai's show delves deep into China's recent history, featuring a string of guests whom state broadcasters would have found too controversial to air.
—Wenxin Fan, NPR, 11 Apr. 2025
The cores of planets offer a unique setting to delve into these fields, challenging our current understanding and potentially revealing new principles that could reshape them.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The cores of planets offer a unique setting to delve into these fields, challenging our current understanding and potentially revealing new principles that could reshape them.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Verb
This gripping, immersive, and cinematic experience delves into the captivating life at the edge of society, unfolding a modern-day Oedipus story.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2025
YouTube Much of Chai's show delves deep into China's recent history, featuring a string of guests whom state broadcasters would have found too controversial to air.
—Wenxin Fan, NPR, 11 Apr. 2025
The cores of planets offer a unique setting to delve into these fields, challenging our current understanding and potentially revealing new principles that could reshape them.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The cores of planets offer a unique setting to delve into these fields, challenging our current understanding and potentially revealing new principles that could reshape them.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delve
Noun
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Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in southern France.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025
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These artifacts, found in a cave considered part of the underworld, may be connected to ideas of creation and fertility.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The thrill of the rush is what got kids on the run as their parents tried to direct them to areas not yet excavated.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Apr. 2025
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Underground is a contemporary interpretation of the Roman baths excavated in nearby Cimiez, with a warm tepidarium, a hot caldarium, and a frigidarium, or cold plunge.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Guided tours lead visitors along pathways, share the history of the caverns, and highlight its wildlife and unique formations, like the 250-foot-deep bottomless pool.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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Hansen offered cave tours to visitors, helped lead exploration in the more than 220-mile network of caverns and helped with biology, cartography and wildlife projects.—
Alicia Victoria Lozano,
NBC News,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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My personal trainer pushes me physically and forces me to dig deep.—
James DiNardo,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.—
Remington Miller,
Arkansas Online,
9 Apr. 2025
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Or spend your days making like a mermaid in your very own indoor grotto complete with a waterfall and lazy-river-style shape that circulates around a picturesque center island.—
Jessica Cherner,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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The ancient grotto-style project is still very much in process, Pugh added.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
17 Jan. 2025
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Thirty-five engineers went down shoveling coal into the boilers to keep the deck lit where lifeboats were being launched and to keep the wireless room powered.—
Sean Kingsley,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2025
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My husband quickly shoveled a path to our garage and the raccoon was more than grateful for the help.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Delve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delve. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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