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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
As leaders plow full-steam ahead, some lawmakers are hitting the breaks, recommending that the party push back its timeline to continue deliberations.
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Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 30 June 2025
Even with chains on the truck’s tires, the driving is slow, the road yet to be sufficiently plowed and salted.
—Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Think sharks, whales, dolphins and birds plowing through bait balls of fish, hunting them in frenzied feeding.
—Rona Berg, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
While pestilence crept over the walls of cities and the countryside fell into desolation—many foreign conquerors of Europe knew how to fight and plunder but not to plow or sow—the monks preserved words.
—Bernd Roeck
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
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Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 30 June 2025
Even with chains on the truck’s tires, the driving is slow, the road yet to be sufficiently plowed and salted.
—Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Think sharks, whales, dolphins and birds plowing through bait balls of fish, hunting them in frenzied feeding.
—Rona Berg, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
While pestilence crept over the walls of cities and the countryside fell into desolation—many foreign conquerors of Europe knew how to fight and plunder but not to plow or sow—the monks preserved words.
—Bernd Roeck
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plow
Verb
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Severe storms raked across Nashville and Middle Tennessee on Saturday, bringing multiple tornado warnings, at least one possible tornado, plus torrential rains and high winds all around the region.—
Laura L. Davis,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Instead, make raking fun again with these nifty hand rakes that resemble giant salad tongs.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 June 2025
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Finally, gradually acclimatizing workers to laboring in extreme heat, instead of expecting people to work full-steam on the first few blazing hot days of the summer.—
Terri Gerstein,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2025
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The flip side Kudos and thanks to the city crews who recently cleaned the benches at Lake Como Park, and labored for days rebuilding the bridges!—
Ticked Off,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2025
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Ultimately, cultivating new talent, rather than trying to outbid the likes of Meta, may prove a more sustainable path for OpenAI in its quest to stay highly mission-oriented while supporting an industry grappling with a scarcity of top-tier talent.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
5 July 2025
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Lamont has cultivated an image as an affable aristocrat while spending about $60 million of his fortune on his four bids for statewide office.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
5 July 2025
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Though several Democrats are starting to make moves toward 2028, liberals have struggled with the lack of a main character to match Trump's political moxie the way then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi did in his first term.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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On offense, the Red Sox have predictably struggled without Devers’ bat in the lineup.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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At times, the juror would widen her eyes and furrow her brow, appearing to be skeptical of some of Mia’s testimony.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
2 June 2025
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People on TikTok openly share negative experiences, cry on camera, discuss red carpet looks from their beds, or talk about books while rolling their eyes, furrowing their brows, and raising their voices.—
Leila Herrmann,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The Trump Administration continues to work closely with State and Local Leaders.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 July 2025
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Firms aspire to generate new possibilities of working, operating, interacting, playing, and living for its customers.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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Kenn Ricci, founder of Flexjet, is an executive who strives to embody both while also running a business in one of the more challenging industries to be sustainable in, aviation.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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But improvements on the field are what this group strives for each year.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2025
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This is the icebreaker on the first full day of the twenty-eighth Annual OCD Conference in July 2023, a global summit marshaling together hundreds with the illness and, alongside them, therapists who treat it and researchers who endeavor to grasp it.—
Andrew Kay,
Harpers Magazine,
28 May 2025
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Boasberg has still endeavored to press ahead with contempt proceedings, since his order was in effect for some time before the high court lifted it.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Plow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plow. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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