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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There are desert badlands, frosty tundra, underwater temples, shipwrecks, lush caves teeming with life, and much more.—
Issy van der Velde,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2025
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Yet travelers tend to overlook one deep category: caves.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
4 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The team plans to continue excavating to explore the deepest layers of the Sima del Elefante site, where the Homo aff.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Mar. 2025
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The complaint did not say if the area was excavated or what was wrapped in the plastic.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
13 Mar. 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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For tulip bulbs treated as annuals, the plants can be dug from the garden as soon as the flowers fade and the foliage and bulbs composted.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
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
Noun
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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
Verb
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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 20 Apr. 2025.
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