unearthing
present participle of
unearth
Meaning of unearthing in English
- findI've looked everywhere for my keys but can't find them.
- discoverThe missing wallet was discovered under the chair.
- locatePolice are still trying to locate the suspect.
- uncoverReporters uncovered evidence of corruption.
- unearthOur investigation unearthed mountains of evidence that implicated the city.
- come acrossWe came across a lovely little restaurant in the village.
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Examples of unearthing
unearthing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Unearthing the original meaning of these words reveals how they all, in one way or other, are ultimately grounded in the spatial domain.
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Without more complete unearthing of contemporaries' remarks about specific structures, it is not possible to answer this question conclusively.
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Unearthing this basic contradiction requires an expansion of the definition of democracy from its minimalist procedural expression to include its more contested substantive dimensions.
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The unearthing of these letters was a major project and their editing and indexing has generally been exemplary.
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This biography is very well researched, and the authors have been extremely diligent in unearthing many previously obscure facts about their subject.
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Considerable effort must have been involved in unearthing them.
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This unearthing took place as increasing numbers of enthusiasts responded to the new show by visiting the studio at the time of the broadcasts.
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In practice, this occurs when the manipulator is pulling against an object such as when opening a door or unearthing a buried object.
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Unearthing the cosmology of the emporia?
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Hongo's unearthing of buried family history and stories must be understood as a natural result of his communing with the land.
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Yet all three accounts, while unearthing important points of contact between science and commercial or bureaucratic practice, say little about actuaries in the later nineteenth century.
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Critically, they are interested in unearthing the practices involved in the creation, dissemination, and stabilization of new technologies, rather than studying the end products of those processes.
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The damage necessitated by the operation of unearthing these munitions of war was in the circumstances not only insignificant but entirely justified.
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I congratulate him on unearthing some passages in it.
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I should like a little more detail about how the tribunals are functioning and what information they are unearthing.
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