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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
However, every single one literally seems like a rhinoceros plowing through a Jeep.
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Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
Musk plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into the MAGA campaign and has become perhaps Trump’s biggest cheerleader on the campaign trail.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025
The bullet had plowed a small hole through the gobblers’ body, high in the back.
—Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2025
Eight people were injured Saturday when a driver plowed a vehicle into a CarMax location in the Los Angeles area.
—arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2025
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Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
Musk plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into the MAGA campaign and has become perhaps Trump’s biggest cheerleader on the campaign trail.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025
The bullet had plowed a small hole through the gobblers’ body, high in the back.
—Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2025
Eight people were injured Saturday when a driver plowed a vehicle into a CarMax location in the Los Angeles area.
—arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plow
Verb
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The Annie set has 12 chairs, each designed to look like something that could literally rake through a head of hair.—
Nora Taylor,
Curbed,
23 Apr. 2025
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The cemetery was only sporadically maintained by its caretaker, and raking the long grass gave me the eerie feeling of running my fingers through a child’s hair.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
2 Apr. 2025
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Then there are interviews, scoops, and other kinds of highly specific reporting; a reporter might labor for months to unearth new information, only for A.I. to hoover it up and fold it into some bland summary.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tribal leaders have long labored to be treated as equals by American politicians.—
Sheryl Gay Stolberg,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Of the traits the Bills are likely looking for, those are the more difficult to cultivate at the NFL level.—
Joe Buscaglia,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Keep coming back to your long-term vision, and cultivate this mindset among all employees, regardless of their role.—
Alexandre Bonvin,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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And their struggling offense is becoming a major concern.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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Now, nearly a month after signing, the Tucson, Arizona, native is finally back in the big leagues, thanks to the struggling Braves' desperation to fill their outfield slots.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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But present those two comments to Beamer, and his brow furrows.—
Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Aside from the motion-capture puppeteers sneezing or furrowing a brow in correspondence to their character's name, six of these dwarfs seem interchangeable — and all sound a little like Josh Gad, for some reason.—
Patrick Gomez,
EW.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Thematically, the fractured friendship works well in a story that is so much about the joys of friendship and the pain of a camaraderie betrayed.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Apr. 2025
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Trading Warren and some other top prospects for Alcántara could work, but what next?—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Apr. 2025
Verb
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If a cell harbors many black morphogens, for example, and a neighboring cell harbors few of them, then the molecules strive to move such that they are distributed as evenly as possible.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2025
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The school could strive for excellence and integrity while doing fewer things.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2025
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The end of the first season saw Dream (Tom Sturridge) endeavor to become a gentler overlord of the Dreaming; meanwhile, Gwendoline Christie's malevolent Lucifer Morningstar plots with Roger Allam's Lord Azazel to foil Dream's plans, and wreak havoc on the entire waking world.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Trump’s two Republican predecessors, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, endeavored to make peace with the size of the federal government, with the former agreeing to tax increases and the latter arguing that it could be directed to conservative ends.—
Jay Cost,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Plow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plow. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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