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Recent Examples of rake up
Instead of leaving them all as mulch beneath the trees, rake up excess needles, especially those that accumulate on driveways and along curbs.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2026
Call your local representatives and ask them to support PSC Reform bills, talk to your neighbors about your bills to increase awareness, and rake up the muck.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
This performance and result against a Wolves team that had picked up just two points in the Premier League this season before turning up at Old Trafford on Tuesday raked up familiar concerns about Amorim and his suitability for the job as Manchester United manager.
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Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
31 Dec. 2025
Five days after the storm, Mullins was still raking up some of the debris in his backyard.
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Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 May 2025
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2026
Call your local representatives and ask them to support PSC Reform bills, talk to your neighbors about your bills to increase awareness, and rake up the muck.
—
Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
This performance and result against a Wolves team that had picked up just two points in the Premier League this season before turning up at Old Trafford on Tuesday raked up familiar concerns about Amorim and his suitability for the job as Manchester United manager.
—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
31 Dec. 2025
Five days after the storm, Mullins was still raking up some of the debris in his backyard.
—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for rake up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rake up
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The show devotes a lot of screen time to the fallout from a particular revelation and the subsequent efforts to smoke out the mole.
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To put all the smoke out is to protect the structures around the fire perimeter and to contain the fire and prevent future escape potential.
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Suarez also acknowledged both teams' slow starts, emphasizing the Red Sox's need to contend.
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Still, Sadeq acknowledged the Ashura ceremony would be much diminished compared with previous years.
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Its focus is on converting and owning the datasets, Manish Agarwal, co-founder of Humyn Labs, told CNBC.
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Baby boomer empty nesters still own almost twice the share of large homes as millennial families, according to Redfin data, and many aren’t planning on leaving any time soon.
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Battle relic found An iron cannonball that may have played a role in the 1836 Battle of the Alamo was unearthed in Texas this month.
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Little bits of teeth had a big surprise Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology molecular scientist Palesa Madupe and her colleagues recently analyzed the proteins in dental enamel from 23 Homo naledi teeth unearthed in four different cave chambers deep in the Rising Star system.
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While scoring goals left and right, the Dutch have also conceded a goal in every game, four in all.
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Baltimore will be getting its first female sheriff after incumbent Sam Cogen conceded to Sabrina Tapp-Harper in Maryland's primary election.
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Hernandez confessed to the crime, a confession his defense team argued was false and borne from mental illness.
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Chester Weger confessed to the murders of three women in 1960, but was only convicted of one.
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Stammen imparted his confidence directly to Machado in yesterday’s 10th inning by way of a pat on the backside and an encouraging word before Machado stepped on the field with his bat in hand.
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In this recipe, genmaicha, Japanese green tea mixed with roasted brown rice, is used to encrust salmon, imparting a nutty, floral flavor and making an exceptional and unusual dish in very little time and with very little effort.
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According to police, one woman was shot in the extremity, two juvenile males had lower extremity injuries, and an adult male and female with lower extremity injuries were admitted into area hospitals, all with non-life-threatening injuries.
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And whether teschers want to admit it or not, AI plagiarism detectors aren’t all that great, so error rates alone raise doubts about relying on them.
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“Rake up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rake%20up. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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