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At about 15 feet from the surface, the man stopped for a routine three-minute break before surfacing, but then started to descend again to about 40 feet deep, Alvarez said.—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2025 However, bottling up emotions doesn’t stop them from surfacing.—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025 As filmmaker, Davidtz parcels out information about the family’s past trauma like a repressed memory stubbornly surfacing, bobbing to the top of their consciousness.—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 12 July 2025 Throughout the journey, technology acts as a sidekick, managing manual tasks, uplifting routine activities and surfacing insights like rich trend data.—Rachel Lyubovitzky, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for surfacing
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