plowed

past tense of plow

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Recent Examples of plowed Farmers plowed up lead and iron shrapnel and even whole hand grenades by the pallet every harvest season. Michael Jerome Plunkett september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025 Investors have plowed close to $350 million in the space with a new crop of startups like Omi and Limitless releasing wearables, while Amazon just snapped up Bee, a tiny note-taking device startup, for an undisclosed amount. Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 After trailing all night long and pushing back Huntington Beach’s momentum swings time and again, Trabuco Hills grabbed the lead with 39 seconds remaining, as Luke Hoffman plowed across the goal line to erase a 12-point fourth-quarter deficit and take the season opener 20-19. Zach Cavanagh, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025 Driven by fears of what would happen if AGI (artificial general intelligence) were to be developed in the wrong hands, Musk has plowed billions of dollars into developing the technology. Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Aug. 2025 Liu said his team analyzed 27 years of water temperature history from a series of buoys placed in the region and found that the deeper waters were warmer than normal when Ian plowed through. Alex Harris august 8, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025 OpenAI along with Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon and others have already plowed hundreds of billions of dollars into AI investment, with some projections of future spending reaching into the trillions. Jasmine Cui, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plowed
Verb
  • Throughout her career, Manna has cultivated and managed partnerships with dozens of distribution partners.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The sorghum fields planted around our family farm this year are courtesy of and cultivated by the Wappel family, our neighbors just down the road.
    Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Pirates, meanwhile, raked Rockies reliever Anthony Molina for three runs on four hits, including two homers in the sixth inning — a leadoff homer by Spencer Horwitz and a two-run blast from Tommy Pham.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Rain bands in Erin's expanding quadrants raked Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on Saturday night, with heavy rain and tropical storm force wind gusts of 40 - 50 mph, prompting flash flood warnings in some locations.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Some of the works would be labored over and over and over again.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But that’s not why Fastvold and Corbet — who as directors have now had two features each in competition in Venice — labored over the film.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • With his brow perennially furrowed and hair slicked with sweat, Riley has the exact look and bearing of a suavely addled wrong-man figure from British thrillers of yore — and thus makes a suitably bemused proxy for the viewers in this wasteland of mounting chaos and absurdity.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Most notably, the Chargers struggled to contain Mahomes in the pocket.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Fighter jets have long struggled to integrate AI into radar systems due to limited space, power, and processing capacity.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Château de Selle is located inland from the Mediterranean Sea, on limestone hillsides, planted in arid limestone soil––the earth is actually mechanically tilled to crush the rocks; yields from the 345-acre organic (since 2022) estate are low.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Red clover can make a drought- and shade-tolerant lawn alternative, but it is more often grown as an annual winter cover crop and then tilled into the soil as green manure.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There were quite a few troubling snaps to Young, and that’s a tough look for a pair that have worked together at their positions in each of the past two summer.
    DIAMOND VENCES, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Plowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plowed. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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