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Recent Examples of shovel
Then, workers shovel lots and lots of coal as the bricks fire, firming them up.
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Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 18 May 2025
Scientists and mathematicians are going to be shoveling through the consequences of this explosion, and perhaps more, for many years.
—Michael Moyer, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
This bucked the accepted wisdom that the only way to improve A.I. was to shovel vast sums of money at Nvidia to buy more and more of its hardware.
—Katie Notopoulos, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Mud and debris flows had impacted Pacific Coast Highway, with Caltrans trucks attempting to shovel mud to the shoulder.
—Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
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Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 18 May 2025
Scientists and mathematicians are going to be shoveling through the consequences of this explosion, and perhaps more, for many years.
—Michael Moyer, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
This bucked the accepted wisdom that the only way to improve A.I. was to shovel vast sums of money at Nvidia to buy more and more of its hardware.
—Katie Notopoulos, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Mud and debris flows had impacted Pacific Coast Highway, with Caltrans trucks attempting to shovel mud to the shoulder.
—Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shovel
Verb
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Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.—
Amir Mahmoud,
Arkansas Online,
27 May 2025
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Scientists dug around the trapdoor to catch the bristly animal — and discovered a new species.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
27 May 2025
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Photos show archaeologists carefully excavating the rectangular work, with parts of it covered under layers of dirt.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2025
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Fred and Rose West were arrested in 1994, after police got a search warrant to excavate their property.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
14 May 2025
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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