digging out

verb

present participle of dig out
1
as in finding
to come upon after searching, study, or effort she dug her old art supplies out of the basement

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2
as in departing
to leave a place often for another without saying where she was going, the young woman dug out early the next morning

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Recent Examples of digging out Jac Caglianone sent both runners home, digging out an 81 mph changeup from righty Bailey Ober and giving the Royals a 2-0 lead. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026 Weeding tools or an old screwdriver will speed up digging out roots. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 June 2026 I'mPhaedra Trethan, digging out my old Rod Brind'Amour Flyers jersey and congratulating the coach on his team's Stanley Cup Finals win. — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 15 June 2026 Ahead of the finish, Vegas continued its second-period dominance in the series, digging out of a 3-1 hole and making a bit of history in the process; for the first time in Stanley Cup Final history, four games have featured a team rallying from a multi-goal deficit to at least tie the game. — Michael Russo, New York Times, 12 June 2026 By analogy, a software engineer who has been digging out a basement with a shovel gets handed a bulldozer. — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 Before this handy feature, passengers would have the whole boarding process held up with their bags splayed out in the aisle, digging out one tiny item. — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2026 So, while exploring your options, consider, too, the possibility of digging out of your debt on your own. — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 14 May 2026 The New York Times, citing US intelligence reports, said Iranian personnel have been digging out underground missile bunkers and silos struck by American and Israeli bombs and returning them to operation hours after attacks. — Arsalan Shahla, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for digging out
  1. finding
  2. departing
  3. learning
  4. exiting
  5. discovering
  6. moving
  7. locating
  8. running along
Verb
  • Over in the post-production room, one of the clearest examples of that evolving creative process came in during the edits and music supervision, where even individual sequences were still finding their identity as the show came together.
    — Deadline, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Zahary emphasized that LLMs, in his experience, have been valuable in assisting humans in developing new theories or finding answers to problems.
    — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of finding
Verb
  • Mohamed Salah has left, departing Liverpool after nine years at Anfield.
    — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Before departing for recess, the Senate is expected to take up acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination to permanently lead the Department of Justice.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of departing
Verb
  • Homeschool enrichment programs allow homeschooled students to participate in public school activities and learning part-time.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Harbaugh had been an assistant coach elsewhere, learning the ropes as an offensive consultant at Western Kentucky and quarterbacks coach for the Oakland Raiders, but this was his first chance to be a head coach.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of learning
Verb
  • This trend is driven by Baby Boomer retirements and immigrants exiting the workforce, partly due to aggressive deportation policies.
    — Harry Holzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But exiting Middle-earth beside cartoon Frodo, there’s a sense that this 98-minute musical adaptation is truly just the beginning.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of exiting
Verb
  • Recent surveys have continued discovering quasars that formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang, helping astronomers understand how the earliest supermassive black holes grew so quickly.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
  • As agents proliferate, these machine-to-machine trust relationships can quickly outpace the teams responsible for discovering, scoping, owning and rotating them.
    — Eric Fourrier, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of discovering
Verb
  • When rolling, it is recommended to run the pasta through a pasta machine at the thickest setting first, then fold the pasta strip over itself into 3 thicknesses and repeat, before moving down a setting.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Though one of the youngest in the field, Bullock carried herself with veteranlike focus, moving through her routine with confidence.
    — Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of moving
Verb
  • The pastime is gaining attention on TikTok and growing in popularity nationwide, driving more folks to discover the appeal (and challenge) of locating and identifying wild mushrooms.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Both the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office assisted in locating the investigator’s body, though no further information about the incident has been shared publicly, according to the outlet.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of locating
Verb
  • And, to his right, Koehn saw a man, later identified as 24-year-old Chad Williams, running along Blue Lakes with a rifle in his hands.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Two 911 callers reported seeing a child in a towel running along a state highway near the Scioto River, according to audio of the calls obtained by ABC News.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Definition of running along

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“Digging out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digging%20out. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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