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as in demolished
to bring down by cutting
an afternoon spent mowing hay
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Recent Examples of mowed
Some weeds such as rescue grass and annual bluegrass produce an attractive winter lawn if they are mowed on a regular basis.
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Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2026
When one member deployed to Kosovo, the others mowed his family’s grass.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Ross has mowed through Tony Sparano, Todd Bowles (interim), Joe Philbin, Dan Campbell (interim), Adam Gase, Brian Flores and now McDaniel.
—Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
Backup offensive lineman Thayer Munford whiffed blocking the Patriots' first run, but otherwise mowed defenders down as a fullback and moving tight end.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
One of the last people to visit her was the man who mowed her lawn.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
Cool-season grass that stay green need to have the soil aerated and mowed only when the blades reach a certain height.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2025
There are multiple graveyards along the trail, too, their grass sometimes mowed by trail clubs like Hudnell’s.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
Someone who wasn’t at the birthday party mowed a lawn.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2026
When one member deployed to Kosovo, the others mowed his family’s grass.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Ross has mowed through Tony Sparano, Todd Bowles (interim), Joe Philbin, Dan Campbell (interim), Adam Gase, Brian Flores and now McDaniel.
—Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
Backup offensive lineman Thayer Munford whiffed blocking the Patriots' first run, but otherwise mowed defenders down as a fullback and moving tight end.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
One of the last people to visit her was the man who mowed her lawn.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
Cool-season grass that stay green need to have the soil aerated and mowed only when the blades reach a certain height.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2025
There are multiple graveyards along the trail, too, their grass sometimes mowed by trail clubs like Hudnell’s.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
Someone who wasn’t at the birthday party mowed a lawn.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mowed
Verb
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Other companies hit hard by worries about AI competition also trimmed their losses for the year.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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The sheer blush pink mesh design was trimmed with matching feathers along the neckline and featured a ruffle with a distressed hem at the bottom, showing off a glimpse of silk pants under her dress as well as a pair of pointy-toed slides.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
23 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Many historic buildings were demolished in the 1960s through the 1980s during the Skyline Urban Renewal Project and a series of suspicious fires to make way for parking lots for downtown high-rises fueled by an oil and gas boom.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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The Home Insurance Building was demolished in 1931 to make way for the 42-story Field Building, which became the city’s largest office building at the time.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Sam Bennett scored with 35 seconds left to cut the deficit back to one but Florida could get no closer.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2026
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That deal, which required Iran to limit its nuclear program by, among other things, cutting enrichment levels and reducing centrifuges, took effect in 2016 and was due to expire 10 years after it was adopted.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
28 Feb. 2026
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Agwunobi had claimed to have shaved $20 million off the hospital’s debt.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2026
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Max Silnicki, who runs the Washington Avenue Barber Shop, shaved the heads of 10,000 Jews in Nazi concentration camps before they were cremated.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Not even when Mourning was felled by kidney disease, when Tim Hardaway could manage little more than a limp, when Dwyane Wade regrettably was allowed to depart in free agency to the Bulls.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2026
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Cortina Mayor Gianluca Lorenzi received death threats after centuries-old trees were felled to make way for a $131 million bobsledding track.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Anticipating attacks on Iran’s top leaders, the regime reportedly flattened the military’s chain of command to push decision making to lower-ranking officers.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
28 Feb. 2026
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Ultimately, Jesse Jackson’s story is the quintessentially American one — a narrative of magnificent contradictions that refuse to be flattened into a simple, polished eulogy.—
Glenn Eden,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Mowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mowed. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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