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In 2023, city inspectors did roughly 6,000 sidewalk inspections, issued 3,400 warnings, wrote 430 tickets for properties that didn’t shovel after a warning and 34 tickets to properties that still didn’t shovel after the first ticket.
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2025
Toth is soon tossed out by his brother and ends up living at a shelter, shoveling coal at the docks for work.
—Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
But horse owners, trainers and enthusiasts had already smelled what the organization was shoveling.
—Kyle Martin, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, Dolores gets word that Tom, who’s standing hunched over the table shoveling food into his mouth, has kept floating her name.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2025
Toth is soon tossed out by his brother and ends up living at a shelter, shoveling coal at the docks for work.
—Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
But horse owners, trainers and enthusiasts had already smelled what the organization was shoveling.
—Kyle Martin, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, Dolores gets word that Tom, who’s standing hunched over the table shoveling food into his mouth, has kept floating her name.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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