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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
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Matt Byrne Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Jan. 2026
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Were the Browns supposed to dig themselves out of a multiyear hole in one season?—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Among them, a hominin femur that was excavated from the cave bears teeth marks.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
7 Jan. 2026
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Recovering lost cultural history Malawi was a British colony when Hora 1 was first excavated in 1950, a time when archaeology seemed more like treasure hunting than science, Thompson said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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