as in grimace
a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval
her mow suggested that she wasn't looking forward to a long evening of political speeches
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as in to fell
to bring down by cutting
an afternoon spent mowing hay
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Recent Examples of mow
Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 25 July 2025
Even launching simple businesses mowing lawns, babysitting, or selling crafts on Etsy requires students to conduct market research, develop pricing strategy, create marketing collateral, and determine a reasonable schedule based on their responsibilities and summer plans.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Improving soil, managing watering, fertilizing correctly, and mowing high are key to lawn care.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
The city owns about 50 of those and is responsible for doing basic maintenance on all of them, like mowing the grass and ensuring plywood covers doors and windows.
—Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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The city may also send a contractor to mow the grass, which the property owner must pay for.
—Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 25 July 2025
Even launching simple businesses mowing lawns, babysitting, or selling crafts on Etsy requires students to conduct market research, develop pricing strategy, create marketing collateral, and determine a reasonable schedule based on their responsibilities and summer plans.
—Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Improving soil, managing watering, fertilizing correctly, and mowing high are key to lawn care.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
The city owns about 50 of those and is responsible for doing basic maintenance on all of them, like mowing the grass and ensuring plywood covers doors and windows.
—Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mow
Noun
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But he would be called things, and strangers would sometimes eavesdrop on our conversations and grimace.—
Tina Knowles,
Vogue,
21 Apr. 2025
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In an alarming sight for an already-banged-up inside linebacker room, Greenlaw pulled up with a grimace after covering J.K. Dobbins on an LB-RB one-on-one pass-coverage drill.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
31 July 2025
Verb
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But after Russia’s defeat at the hands of the British in the costly 1854-56 Crimean War, Tsar Nicholas II decided to cut his losses and relinquish the difficult-to-defend Alaska.—
Dan Morrison,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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An ability to get the products overland from Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, will cut weeks and substantial costs out of that supply chain.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Trees must be felled with dangerous and expensive equipment, dragged up muddy and steep slopes with cables, cut into lengths, loaded onto trucks and hauled.—
William Baldwin,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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In reality, what felled her was not just one gangster’s greed but an entire organization’s—the inheritors of Rothstein’s operation—zeroing in on a mom-and-pop, or at least a mom, business, as big enterprises always do.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Serve up in a stemmed glass, and garnish with a scowl, or perhaps a war story.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
11 July 2025
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Balthazar, played in a hipster fade and with a puppy-dog scowl by Jaeden Martell, is a New York rich kid with a life coach and a divorced mother (Jennifer Ehle) who’s too busy throwing political cocktail parties to pay him much attention.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 June 2025
Verb
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Bypassing the extensive zoning and civil engineering foundational work required for new structures can shave off months, if not years, from the overall project timeline.—
Dr. Dick Bridy,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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There is no law against eating, reading, adjusting the radio or shaving your body while driving.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The aim was to encode the various nuanced ways human faces transmit states of mind, and then to visualize them; smiles and frowns are the barest beginning.—
Dan Rockmore,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
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Byrne has never been better, sharper, or more intimidating as a screen presence, carrying the movie with squints and frowns.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
Verb
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To see if your rose bush is dying or just dormant, trim a cane that looks dead and cut away some of the bark.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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In the case of the plastic eel, trim the tail to a slim taper.—
Anthony A. Ciuffa,
Outdoor Life,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Even an old grain silo near the former Nickel Plate train station raised a few hackles when it was demolished.—
John Tuohy,
IndyStar,
14 Aug. 2025
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When a building gets demolished, what happens to all that concrete, glass, stone or metal?—
Sydney Franklin,
The Enquirer,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Mow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mow. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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