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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as dug" is not standard or widely recognized in written English.
It may be used in specific contexts, such as informal speech or dialects, but it lacks clarity and may confuse readers.
Example: "The soil was left as dug, with no further processing done."
Alternatives: "as is" or "in its original state".
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Mr. Gaston is just as dug in.
But long-standing residents are just as dug in.
His landscapes look like they have not so much been taken as dug from the soil that they frame.
It's clearly catching, because the turf at the Stade Ernest-Wallon curled up every time anyone so much as dug a stud in.
Not only did it seem every bit as dug in during negotiations with the referees union, Peter King writes on SI.com, but it also issued a lame statement tiptoeing around the issues in the farce that was the end of the Packers-Seahawks game Monday night.
Well, I'd like to dunk like LeBron James, but it's not going to happen, especially with Republicans as dug in as they are on no-new-revenues (not sure what that has to do with my basketball skills, but you get it).
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So long as we both dug as hard and as fast as we could, everything would work out.
Memphis, on the other hand, makes basketball appear about as glamorous as digging trenches.
Your horoscope is currently about just that, as well as digging deep for financial solutions.
Dittrich is not so much eulogising his grandfather as digging a grave for his posthumous reputation.
With movies such as "Digging for Fire," "Results," "Stinking Heaven," and "Wild Canaries," the form is only superficially classical.
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