excavates
- present tense form of excavate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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In her 1987 essay, “The Site of Memory,” she utilized a river as a metaphor to discuss how imagination excavates forgotten histories and people.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026
In a breezy, sun-soaked 90 minutes, Romvari excavates a lifetime of knotted, intergenerational trauma — a phrase that almost feels too heavy and too burdened by cryptic implications, given how this movie explores it.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, Ms. Rivera Garza’s book is a fusion of fiction and nonfiction that excavates both national and family history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
His team excavates the rubble with care, aware that they are searching for fragments of broken humanity.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
It makes a hole as large as a small lead pencil, directly into the trunk or limbs, and excavates long tunnels into the heart wood.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 by Northern Nut Growers Association
