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dig for

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dig for something 
1. Lit. to excavate to find something that is buried. They are digging along the river bank for a special kind of clay. I want to dig for gold in Alaska.
2. Fig. to go to great pains to uncover information of some kind. The police were digging for some important information while they questioned Mike "Fingers" Moran. There is no point in digging further for the name of the inventor. I have it right here.
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Dinosaur species found at the site include diplodocus, apatosaur, barosaur, allosaur, camarasaur and possibly stegosaur, some by people in the Dig for a Day program.
The software package was developed by the DIG for independent software developers using the Flashpix format.
 
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