excavation
noun
a hole or cavity made by excavating.
excavations
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pluralof excavation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They also hope to carry out targeted excavations at both the Devil's Arrows and the newly identified source area.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
While they are still to be fixed, water in the river is again running freely after a multi-agency and community effort saw vital excavations and tree removal take place.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Underground excavations have compromised ground stability, placing substations, transformers, pylons and transmission towers at risk," City Power spokesman Isaac Mangena said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Despite a lack of formal education, Kusman began copying the inscriptions found during excavations carried out in eastern Turkey, Iran and Armenia, over which Urartu once stretched.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
In the decades that followed, extensive excavations revealed to increasingly intrigued eighteenth-century Europeans how sophisticated - and, to their consternation, how saucy - their ancient ancestors had been.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
