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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
The chariot was likely a two-wheeled construction, although the second wheel appears to have been lost at some point due to modern plowing techniques.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025
The car struck several people outside the building before plowing through it, hitting many inside.
—Sara Tenenbaum, Sara MacHi, Ian Lee, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2025
Listen to this article At least four students were killed and another six people injured after an SUV plowed through an afterschool program in a community 12 miles south of Springfield, Illinois, police said.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
The hijackers plowed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 28 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025
The car struck several people outside the building before plowing through it, hitting many inside.
—Sara Tenenbaum, Sara MacHi, Ian Lee, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2025
Listen to this article At least four students were killed and another six people injured after an SUV plowed through an afterschool program in a community 12 miles south of Springfield, Illinois, police said.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2025
The hijackers plowed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plow
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Those waterfowl sure can rake … putting 13 runs on upstart Liberty to get back to the World Series stage.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Last year the Village Board voted to require Oak Park homeowners residents to bag their leaves instead of just raking their leaves into the street as they had been accustomed to doing.—
Bob Skolnik,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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Brightline has labored to increase ridership along its 170-mile extension to Orlando from West Palm Beach.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
20 May 2025
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Each creator contributed immensely to American art and culture, while laboring in an industry that, until recently, produced very little financial rewards or respect.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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However, real estate value isn't built overnight; it's cultivated over years and often decades.—
Rodolfo Delgado,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Once known as the alligator pear, the avocado traces its history to southern Mexico, where the fruit, according to some experts, was first cultivated about 5,000 years ago.—
Daniel Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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While many companies have struggled to define their policies, bouncing between strict return-to-office mandates and hybrid compromises, Logitech has taken a different path.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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From dropout to overachiever For most of her life, Mui struggled to fit into society’s mold.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
23 May 2025
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The funny thing is that, wild gore aside, Scanners is one of his most accessible films — essentially Cronenberg’s version of an X-Men picture, pitting the good and the evil Scanners against each other via close-ups of the actors grimacing and furrowing with silly mental concentration.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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The end result was a physical prop capable of 150 different movements, including extending his neck even longer, furrowing his brow, and wrinkling his nose.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2025
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The data doesn't lie: vaccines work, including against COVID-19.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
31 May 2025
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His mother worked as a doctor in China, and juggled three jobs in the U.S. for over a decade, saving up enough to eventually open a medical clinic.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
31 May 2025
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Businesses should be able to write off the full expense of their capital investments in the year they are made, and the Senate should strive to cut spending elsewhere to balance out the revenue losses from making bonus depreciation permanent.—
The Editors,
National Review,
23 May 2025
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What Thornton is striving toward, an embrace of generosity, of humanity being able to change what faith and religion even mean, is often moving.—
Ella Kemp,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
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To that end, a new institution, the League of Nations, would provide collective security for its members, confront aggression (with military force if necessary), and endeavor to improve the lot of humanity.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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With her new book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (out April 29 from Penguin Press), Gilbert looks back at the late 1990s and early aughts, endeavoring to find out what happened to feminism in the early 21st century.—
Josh Zajdman,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Plow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plow. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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