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Liquid Brine Spraying liquid brine onto your walkways and driveway before a storm or freezing temperatures, or immediately after shoveling snow, lowers the freezing point of water and creates a barrier that prevents ice from bonding to pavement, according to Gautum.
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Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
The medley for winter-weary Americans has included everything from aching backs from shoveling to sore throats to frozen noses.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2026
The Baltimore Department of Housing has issued 224 citations for walks that have not been shoveled from Monday through Thursday of this week.
—Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine reports that more than 200,000 adults were treated in emergency rooms for snow shoveling injuries from 1990 to 2006.
—Manahil Ahmad, The Providence Journal, 7 Feb. 2026
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Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
The medley for winter-weary Americans has included everything from aching backs from shoveling to sore throats to frozen noses.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2026
The Baltimore Department of Housing has issued 224 citations for walks that have not been shoveled from Monday through Thursday of this week.
—Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine reports that more than 200,000 adults were treated in emergency rooms for snow shoveling injuries from 1990 to 2006.
—Manahil Ahmad, The Providence Journal, 7 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shovel
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Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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Progressive Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.—
John Brummett,
Arkansas Online,
17 Feb. 2026
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From a Forgotten Grave to a Landmark Discovery The artifact was originally excavated about 100 years ago from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, found in Grave 3932 — the burial of an adult man.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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The artifact was originally excavated about 100 years ago from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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