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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spades
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Biel also showed off the back of the dress—or rather, lack thereof, as the dress scoops down to just above her hips.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
4 Jan. 2026 -
Or scoops the ball behind his back and low to the ground like a yo-yo on a string.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Jan. 2026
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The country also mines about half of the world’s lithium, a mineral critical to the production of electric vehicle batteries.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2025
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Beauvoir’s letters show a softer, surprisingly endearing side of the pioneering feminist, and Acocella mines them for the delightful and the dirty.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Spades.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spades. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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