Synonyms for digging
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1. excavation, digging, dignoun

   the act of digging

   "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"

   Synonyms:
   barb, dig, excavation, jab, slam, shot, shaft, archeological site, jibe, gibe, mining

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1. diggingnoun

   Synonyms:
   excavation, exhumation (digging up)

   Associated words:
   fossorial, fodient

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1. List of paraphrases for "digging":

   dig, excavation, drilling, dug, burrowing, excavating, delving, hafr

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1. Marco Attisani:

   This technology does not patronize them with water wells, i'm not at all criticizing this solution but you can't uplift a community around the world in the 21st Century by digging wells. People are made of water, but they need much more than water. You need to bring the 21st Century technology. You need to bring there water, yes; electricity which is the fire of the modern era, and connectivity because if you are off-line you are not in the present.

2. Kathi Meci:

   I'm angry that senior citizens in this country are being ignored again, especially after digging deeper into our pockets for Medicare premiums, that is just so frustrating for me.

3. Andrew Yang:

   The more we act like Donald Trump is the cause of all our problems, the more Americans lose trust that we can actually see what's going on in our communities and solve those problems, what we have to do is we have to stop being obsessed over impeachment -- which unfortunately strikes many Americans like a ballgame where you know what the score is going to be -- and start actually digging in and solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.

4. President Biden:

   The policies of the Biden administration are playing out right now at home, anybody going to fill up their tanks...in Wyoming are spending $20 extra. … We’re seeing inflation, and every family in America is digging into their wallets as a result of Biden policies, which I believe have been bad for our economy and certainly bad for the workers in our country.

5. Antonio Guterres:

   There is a cost to everything. But the biggest cost is doing nothing. The biggest cost is subsidising a dying fossil fuel industry, building more and more coal plants, and denying what is plain as day: that we are in a deep climate hole, and to get out we must first stop digging.