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Recent Examples of shovelUse a gardening fork or shovel to gently loosen the soil beneath the tubers and lift the potatoes by their stems.—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 See All Example Sentences for shovel
Back in 1915, Phys reported, a team excavated Margaret Island in Budapest and discovered the remains of a young man in a Dominican monastery.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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.
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