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Recent Examples of shovel
Mud and debris flows had impacted Pacific Coast Highway, with Caltrans trucks attempting to shovel mud to the shoulder.
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Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
Under the Biden administration, the country shoveled unprecedented sums of federal dollars into clean-energy projects—battery factories, solar farms, nuclear plants—while also producing and exporting record volumes of oil and gas.
—Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
Ahmed Mohammed shovels snow Wednesday in front of a grocery store in Omaha, Neb.Chris Machian / Omaha World-Herald via AP
Meanwhile, possible tornadoes ripped roofs off buildings in Gary, Indiana, on Wednesday.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2025
Over the years, players, including Durham, sometimes gave Wickers money to supplement his income from washing windows, shoveling snow and other odd jobs.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
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Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
Under the Biden administration, the country shoveled unprecedented sums of federal dollars into clean-energy projects—battery factories, solar farms, nuclear plants—while also producing and exporting record volumes of oil and gas.
—Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
Ahmed Mohammed shovels snow Wednesday in front of a grocery store in Omaha, Neb.Chris Machian / Omaha World-Herald via AP
Meanwhile, possible tornadoes ripped roofs off buildings in Gary, Indiana, on Wednesday.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2025
Over the years, players, including Durham, sometimes gave Wickers money to supplement his income from washing windows, shoveling snow and other odd jobs.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shovel
Verb
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Electric cables were ripped from the walls and dug from the ground in Aldy's home and in virtually every occupied building, stripped for copper.—
Emmanuel Akinwotu,
NPR,
16 May 2025
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In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a well stumbled upon a lavish villa in the ruins of Herculaneum.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 May 2025
Verb
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But figuring out what’s excavating without your permission isn’t straightforward.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
8 May 2025
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Archaeologists did not excavate the largest part of the hole but suspect more treasures may be hidden within.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2025
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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