delve
verb (used without object)
to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigate.
was delving
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past progressiveof delve.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“The fact that he was delving into issues of medicine, where none of us are qualified to opine on that, is disturbing,” James said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
No, it all confirmed my suspicions, particularly when I was delving into the science … For me, it was hard emotionally.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2017
Ms Nickolds says one of the first things she did when she got her promotion was delving into the John Lewis archive and its 150 year history.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2017
Some three weeks later, the pair was delving into those questions in front of a sold-out crowd in Vancouver.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2016
That eager scientist was delving away after fossil bones as enthusiastically as if he had never discovered any.
From The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)
