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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spaded
scooped
Verb
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Her flippers, each more than two feet long, scooped out sand and flung it to her sides in slow, determined strokes.—
M. Rajshekhar,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025 -
Not knowing what else to do (and being a father himself), Robbie scooped the kid up and took him home with him.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Spaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spaded. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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