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as in to labor
to devote serious and sustained effort
plowed determinedly through the weighty tome
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Recent Examples of plow
Officials are seeking answers to how someone could plow a truck through the city's most famous street when millions have been spent to keep it safe.
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Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
As the Maryland received inches of snow Monday, Baltimore City and surrounding counties activated hundreds of employees to plow along with a number of other resources.
—Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2025
And the families of 14 people killed and at least 30 wounded early Wednesday tried to make sense of a 42-year-old Texas Army veteran who officials said drove a rental truck to Louisiana to plow through a Bourbon Street crowd before being shot dead.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2025
Overland Park’s snow crews have plowed and treated all of the city’s thoroughfares and collector streets, and more than half of the neighborhood streets as of midday Tuesday.
—Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
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Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
As the Maryland received inches of snow Monday, Baltimore City and surrounding counties activated hundreds of employees to plow along with a number of other resources.
—Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2025
And the families of 14 people killed and at least 30 wounded early Wednesday tried to make sense of a 42-year-old Texas Army veteran who officials said drove a rental truck to Louisiana to plow through a Bourbon Street crowd before being shot dead.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2025
Overland Park’s snow crews have plowed and treated all of the city’s thoroughfares and collector streets, and more than half of the neighborhood streets as of midday Tuesday.
—Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plow
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When the rye declines, rake it out and loosen the soil to sow the permanent bahiagrass seed.—
Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2025
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After the area mostly dries, rake away all dead material and loosen the soil.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
8 Jan. 2025
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There are no heroes here, just Kidman fully immersing herself in a character for whom every action is an attack, for whom every word is a wheeze, and for whom every movement looks labored.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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It’s been almost a calendar year since the Sixers have seen that Embiid, the one who’s active on both ends of the floor, instead of laboring up and down.—
Tony Jones,
The Athletic,
31 Dec. 2024
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At one point, lavender was cultivated on nearly 1,000 hectares of Hvar, and the island itself accounted for nearly 10 percent of the world’s total lavender production.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Jan. 2025
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As was the case in the Middle East and Afghanistan, ISIS' West Africa Province (ISWAP) cultivated local partnerships by capitalizing on existing conflicts between government forces and insurgents, including Nigeria's powerful Boko Haram, to establish itself as a major player in the region.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Despite prior efforts to offer retention bonuses, the BOP has struggled to retain employees in the face of mounting challenges.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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But these same models sometimes struggle with basic tasks, like arithmetic or writing metered poetry.—
Kevin Roose,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Trump's mug shot is a blurry image of him staring into the camera, head tilted down and brows furrowed.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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Brody’s characters teem with contradictions and inner hinterlands; patience gives way to explosive anger, smiles curve inward; his brow furrows articulately as any monologue.—
Wendell Steavenson,
Vogue,
5 Jan. 2025
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The Rebels, meanwhile, calmly worked the shot clock and found driving angles for easy baskets inside or kick-out 3s against SDSU’s vaunted defense that entered the day ranked seventh nationally.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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Behind the scenes: The meeting between Waltz and the families in Washington, DC was organized by Nizar Zaka, CEO of Hostage Aid International, an NGO that assists families of hostages and is working closely with senior Trump administration officials.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
19 Jan. 2025
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Film dramaturgy, on the other hand, strives for a kind of purity and clarity.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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The streamer has spent years striving for the Best Picture title, only to narrowly miss out again and again.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
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The 613 men had traveled from their native Niger to neighboring Libya, where many of them planned to reach Europe over the Mediterranean Sea, a journey thousands of people from sub-Saharan Africa endeavor to make every year.—
Elian Peltier,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Harris endeavored to use the political vulnerability against Trump during their one and only debate last September.—
Naomi Lim,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Plow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plow. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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