How to Use plow ahead in a Sentence
plow ahead
phrasal verb-
About 30% of them still plow ahead full-speed, ignoring the warnings.
— David Pogue, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024 -
Battling a fierce northeast gale, the Daniel J. Morrell plowed ahead, but the smaller ship vanished.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024 -
The Fed could cut rates this year even if the economy plows ahead, as long as inflation kept falling.
— Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023 -
But this is the future of Google's podcast content, so the company is plowing ahead with it.
— Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023 -
In the meantime, some Utahns are plowing ahead, mixing spirit and profit freely.
— Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2024 -
Governments around the world, meanwhile, have been plowing ahead with their own chip programs.
— Ian King, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024 -
When that guy gets out, the reckless driver plows ahead, killing the stranger and leaving his daughter in critical condition.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Still, some House Republicans appeared ready to plow ahead.
— Carl Hulse, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023 -
One reason the Fed could be able to cut rates next year, even if the economy plows ahead, would be if inflation kept falling, as expected.
— Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023 -
One reason the Fed might be able to cut rates next year, even if the economy plows ahead, would be if inflation kept falling, as expected.
— Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023 -
Just plowing ahead with an approach for carbon reduction that sounds good, but in the real world simply may not work, ends up helping nobody.
— Daniel Markind, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Somehow, like the Fast and the Furious franchise this movie poster seems to parody, Cars just kept plowing ahead with another sequel.
— Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 16 June 2023 -
Disney, however, decided to plow ahead anyway with the premiere of the Haunted Mansion remake, even though the entire cast of the film was not in attendance.
— Vulture, 16 July 2023 -
In the span of 24 hours this past week, Elon Musk made three very big bets with three very different companies, together showing his penchant to plow ahead despite sizable risks.
— Tim Higgins, wsj.com, 22 Apr. 2023 -
But the dual decision to acquire Grail—for too much money, in Icahn’s opinion—and plow ahead with the deal despite regulator pushbacks got the most Icahn ink.
— Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 27 July 2023 -
Speaking to reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday, Murray acknowledged that the Senate was plowing ahead anyway.
— Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2023 -
Trump has demonstrated the power of plowing ahead, regardless of what the party elites and the newspaper editorial writers may say.
— Susan Page, USA TODAY, 30 June 2024 -
Jen Shah is behind bars for running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme (not that one), so the rest of the women have to plow ahead with another winter of high drama and petty differences all on their own.
— James Grebey, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Yet so far, the economy has continued to plow ahead, and inflation is retreating faster than some economists expected.
— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2023 -
The Biden administration is acting as other governments around the world plow ahead with efforts to regulate advanced AI systems.
— Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023 -
Instead of plowing ahead with an ideological battle, U.S. policymakers should revisit the Cold War to learn how to win friends and maintain alliances.
— Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024 -
Most of his rivals, meanwhile, have plowed ahead by pulling traditional campaign levers, blitzing Iowa with visits to all of its 99 counties, increasing -- or slashing -- spending on ads or leaning on strong debate performances.
— Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023 -
Merchant was known for plowing ahead with production without a complete budget in place, cajoling money out of investors along the way and deferring payments for as long as possible, a practice that often left cast and crew disgruntled.
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 -
Yet, despite those findings, many predominantly Republican states have been plowing ahead with rolling back child labor protections.
— Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 1 July 2024 -
Much of the hand wringing around AI stems from concerns that these major firms are plowing ahead with the technology without adequately considering the potentially negative effects.
— Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Now, as Trump plows ahead with his third bid for the White House, that familiar call to end birthright citizenship has once again risen as a prospective rallying cry for a Republican party increasingly defined by hostility to immigration.
— Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 27 June 2023 -
Johnson reportedly told centrist Republicans in a closed-door meeting last week that there is insufficient evidence to plow ahead with impeachment proceedings against the president.
— Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
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