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Recent Examples of shovel
Two helicopters dropped off hand crews, who began to shovel in the area to establish containment lines.
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Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
Quasars are the extremely active supermassive black holes at the heart of some galaxies, furiously feeding on gas that is being shoveled towards their maw, and growing as a result of this voracious feeding.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
12 June 2026
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
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Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
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Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
Quasars are the extremely active supermassive black holes at the heart of some galaxies, furiously feeding on gas that is being shoveled towards their maw, and growing as a result of this voracious feeding.
—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
12 June 2026
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shovel
Verb
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Senegal will really have to dig deep in order to come away with a point.
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While starter Tyler Phillips held steady for six innings, giving up five hits and two runs while striking out four, Alejandro Osuna and Elias Díaz each knocked in runs in the top of the eighth that dug the Marlins a hole their offense couldn’t come out of.
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In addition to excavating the property, investigators have seized financial records, adoption records and business records.
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Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface.
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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