is excavating
- present progressive of excavate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Perpetua is excavating a mine in Idaho that, once operational, will be the only domestic reserve of the critical mineral antimony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Rooks considers Parlá a realist in this sense “because he is excavating our own experience” and invoking objects that are familiar, “that have layers of history.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2022
Now I realize what I've been doing for more than 50 years is excavating old ideas and finding new ways to express them.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2022
Among his more ambitious goals is excavating 2.7 miles of tunnel for a vacuum tube that can transport 16 people in a pod from downtown Los Angeles to the LAX airport in eight minutes.
From Slate ● May 18, 2018
Yet that is excavating as it is usually found to be.
From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Weigall, Arthur E. P. B.
