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Recent Examples of shovel
Use a gardening fork or shovel to gently loosen the soil beneath the tubers and lift the potatoes by their stems.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
The less glamorous side — the poop shoveled, the low wages — is rarely shown.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
Stolarz noted how the Leafs played offence, shovelling pucks from down low to the points.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Sauk County in 2025 took on the responsiblity for and covered some operational tasks that UW-Platteville had previously covered, such as snow-shoveling and lawn-mowing.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
The less glamorous side — the poop shoveled, the low wages — is rarely shown.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
Stolarz noted how the Leafs played offence, shovelling pucks from down low to the points.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Sauk County in 2025 took on the responsiblity for and covered some operational tasks that UW-Platteville had previously covered, such as snow-shoveling and lawn-mowing.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shovel
Verb
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Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Nov. 2025
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The Yankees will need to dig deep into their pockets to bring Bellinger back.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Nov. 2025
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Back in 1915, Phys reported, a team excavated Margaret Island in Budapest and discovered the remains of a young man in a Dominican monastery.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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The team excavated several key places on the site, studied cores of soil and conducted an additional LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, survey of the area.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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