dredge up
Britishverb
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to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source
to dredge up worthless ideas
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to raise with or as if with a dredge
they dredged up the corpse from the lake
Example Sentences
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For him there was too much to get excited about in the 80 minutes to come, without dredging up the past.
From BBC
This included mapping the seabed with sonar arrays and dredging up sediment samples, said the authority.
From Barron's
Just five years ago, the same agency—then under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo—had denied the permit, citing the likelihood that it would dredge up toxic material.
From Barron's
But there’s yet another reason for his compulsive dredging up of 2020, and it has everything to do with the future, not the past.
From Salon
Their reconciliation came just as Stiller was beginning to sift through decades of nostalgia, dredging up memories about how he felt when his parents weren’t present for parts of his childhood.
From Salon
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