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as in to labor
to devote serious and sustained effort
plowed determinedly through the weighty tome
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Recent Examples of plow
Shortsleeve’s criticism comes among complaints made by residents in New Bedford and Fall River of delays in clearing side streets, with some Fall River residents still trapped as of Thursday morning on streets had yet to be plowed four days after the storm hit.
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Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Video shows the operator react seconds before the train plows through the tree.
—Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026
While plowing through waist-deep powder in Tahoe, California, two skiers came across a third buried below the surface.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 26 Feb. 2026
Estrella said that residents can contact 311 if their street does not have a single lane plowed by the end of the day.
—Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 26 Feb. 2026
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Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Video shows the operator react seconds before the train plows through the tree.
—Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026
While plowing through waist-deep powder in Tahoe, California, two skiers came across a third buried below the surface.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 26 Feb. 2026
Estrella said that residents can contact 311 if their street does not have a single lane plowed by the end of the day.
—Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plow
Verb
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Start by cutting the lawn very low and raking the planting area to remove the clippings, dead grass, and other debris.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2026
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Many weeds died during cold; rake out and fill with new sod or plugs.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2026
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He was stuck deep in the recesses of shock and grief at the loss of the boy who’d labored by his side for so long, a boy who’d never harmed anyone and who had sat behind the wheel of that silver Saab from sunrise to sundown for the family.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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Like some other trade center components, the project labored for years to secure financing and an anchor tenant.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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So as the secure and stable image Dubai spent so long cultivating crumbles, is a mass exodus imminent?—
Tamara Hardingham-Gill,
CNN Money,
6 Mar. 2026
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Perhaps the intent is to cultivate suspense, yet the effect is a frustrating vagueness around the base conditions for the show’s central infatuation.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
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Deeper challenges China's policy announcements will be scrutinized for details on consumer stimulus, such as expanding trade-in subsidies, and any incremental support for the struggling property market.—
Evelyn Cheng,Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2026
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With human civilization still struggling to find our way through our technological infancy, does this new study actually predict humanity’s demise?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Mar. 2026
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At the bottom of the steps, Junior Sister was dressed just as haphazardly, brow furrowed with concern.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
15 Feb. 2026
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Some were nodding, brows furrowed, as if in a foreign-language class; others were trying not to bust up laughing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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The Hawks worked the ball up court and got it to Webb who fake a drive to make some space and then drilled a three with 10 seconds left to retake the lead.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Mar. 2026
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And though the devastation wrought by last year’s fire was unprecedented in its scale, the Schneiders remain optimistic about the future of their beloved enclave and its plucky local paper.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Iranians have striven for democracy at least since 1906, when the Constitutional Revolution led to the establishment of our Parliament.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
1 Mar. 2026
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Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Surrounded by the swirling storms of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, Billie Jo is striving to survive after a terrible accident takes her mother’s life.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2026
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Along the way, Pollan endeavored to find answers to some of the most fundamental questions of existence, like why is there a subjective self at all?—
Nick Hilden,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2026
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Finding a romantic partner is a high-stakes, low-odds endeavor that many people pursue with single-minded determination.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Plow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plow. Accessed 8 Mar. 2026.
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