delve
verb (used without object)
to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigate.
are delving
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present progressiveof delve.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Congressional investigators are delving into the foreign business deals via Treasury Department suspicious activity reports generated by banks.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
The students are delving into the renowned collection of prints to spark discussion about “activist legacies from the Japanese American incarceration and related wartime atrocities,” as the course description reads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Long removed from winning the Cup three times in six years, the Blackhawks are delving into a long-term rebuild.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
Increasingly, ostracod researchers are delving into how evolution shaped the animals’ most distinctive feature—their flashes.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
I would sound it in the ears of the million who are delving the earth for gold, and startle them from their delusive dreams.
From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Clark, Sereno D.
