dredge up

verb

1. to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source

   to dredge up worthless ideas

2. to raise with or as if with a dredge

   they dredged up the corpse from the lake

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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This suggests that powerful convection in the star's final years may have dredged up carbon from deep inside, enriching its surface and altering the type of dust it produced.

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The recent trial dredged up old memories, with some evidence suggesting gang loyalties pushed Echeverria and Pineda to commit the grisly crime — while prosecutor David Ayvazian alleged a more sinister motive.

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In white coverall suits and full-face respirators, hazmat workers went property by property sifting through the ashes to dredge up lead-acid batteries, tins of paint thinner and pesticide canisters.

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Related Words

• ascertain 
• bring to light 
• determine 
• discover 
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• expose 
• find 
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• reveal 
• uncover