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Recent Examples of shoveled
The spat between the off-duty cop and the couple kicked off after Modeste and Courtney shoveled snow onto James’ property following the massive storm that dumped 20″ across the city, prosecutors said.
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Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
The maritime museum includes a historic seaport village with cobblestone, slate and gravel walkways that have to be shoveled by hand.
—ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
And as an East Coaster who shoveled two feet of snow from my driveway this week, my mental health requires me to look ahead.
—Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
Parked cars and trees are covered in snow in the aftermath of a blizzard this morning, as convenience stores pelted with frost are shoveled clear in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 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
Twelve thousand miles of sidewalk were shovelled.
—Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
A little more than three minutes into the first period, Alex Laferriere shoveled a puck toward Kempe in the slot.
—Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Skills coach John McLean, who doesn’t travel with the team, also went the airport and shoveled out the entire traveling party’s cars, no small task with the amount of snow dumped on the region.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
The maritime museum includes a historic seaport village with cobblestone, slate and gravel walkways that have to be shoveled by hand.
—ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
And as an East Coaster who shoveled two feet of snow from my driveway this week, my mental health requires me to look ahead.
—Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
Parked cars and trees are covered in snow in the aftermath of a blizzard this morning, as convenience stores pelted with frost are shoveled clear in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 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
Twelve thousand miles of sidewalk were shovelled.
—Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
A little more than three minutes into the first period, Alex Laferriere shoveled a puck toward Kempe in the slot.
—Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Skills coach John McLean, who doesn’t travel with the team, also went the airport and shoveled out the entire traveling party’s cars, no small task with the amount of snow dumped on the region.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoveled
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They’re dug and divided in the fall or winter, then kept in cold storage until they are sent to you at the correct time for planting.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
4 Mar. 2026
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Police found evidence of a hole that had been dug near the creek, but questioned how a pair of legs could have gone unreported for days after the initial discovery.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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The installation reproduces local KGB archives on Stalin and facsimiles of historical artifacts of the 1960s placed around an AR reconstruction of Buddha in Nirvana, a forty-three-foot-long, 1,600-year-old clay statue of a reclining Buddha excavated in Tajikistan in the late ’60s.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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The reception area showcases a 21-foot installation created with soil excavated during construction—the building's foundation reborn as art.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Shoveled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoveled. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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