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Recent Examples of shovel
Bobby Chang and Reese Hornstein spent Thursday afternoon shoveling out their car in Southie.
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Logan Hall, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
The city is also finalizing the details of a program that will involve paying nonprofits to coordinate volunteer snow removal efforts throughout the city, though the city will not be directly paying community members to shovel.
—Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 26 Feb. 2026
Almost immediately in the CNN Films documentary, Chase shovels fresh dirt on himself, telling intrepid filmmaker Marina Zenovich that her task will not be easy.
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
While others are shoveling snow, scraping ice off their cars and getting all bundled up, Phoenicians are enjoying porch weather.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 24 Feb. 2026
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Logan Hall, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
The city is also finalizing the details of a program that will involve paying nonprofits to coordinate volunteer snow removal efforts throughout the city, though the city will not be directly paying community members to shovel.
—Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 26 Feb. 2026
Almost immediately in the CNN Films documentary, Chase shovels fresh dirt on himself, telling intrepid filmmaker Marina Zenovich that her task will not be easy.
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026
While others are shoveling snow, scraping ice off their cars and getting all bundled up, Phoenicians are enjoying porch weather.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shovel
Verb
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His teammates dug him, and vice versa.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2026
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Start with a narrow trowel, not a shovel Your instinct might be to grab the biggest digging tool on the rack.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The plan even included transporting heavy equipment, such as bulldozers, in case buried nuclear material had to be excavated.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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The city is leaning on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to require Ford to cover the cost of fully excavating and restoring the site itself.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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