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delve

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
delve/delv/

▶verb

1 reach inside a receptacle and search for something.

2 research intensively into something.

– derivatives
delver noun.

– origin OE delfan ‘dig’, of W. Gmc origin.

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I will be able to delve deeper into politics while explore unfamiliar fields.

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