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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Several members of Koopmans’s team are delving into how climate change might affect the Netherlands, much of which is below sea level and prone to flooding.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 26, 2023
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
Now, as part of a worldwide reckoning with prejudice, hockey historians are delving deeper into the role of some of the first non-white professional hockey players.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
His two sons are delving in the gold mines of Johannesburg, and return home each spring time to help the old man and their two young sisters to do the ploughing.
From Native Life in South Africa by Sol (Solomon Tshekisho) Plaatje
