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Recent Examples of rake up
Mow the lawn to a lower height than usual, being sure to bag the grass clippings and rake up any remaining debris that can keep the seeds from coming into contact with the soil.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2026
Instead of leaving them all as mulch beneath the trees, rake up excess needles, especially those that accumulate on driveways and along curbs.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2026
Call your local representatives and ask them to support PSC Reform bills, talk to your neighbors about your bills to increase awareness, and rake up the muck.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
Five days after the storm, Mullins was still raking up some of the debris in his backyard.
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Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for rake up
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2026
Instead of leaving them all as mulch beneath the trees, rake up excess needles, especially those that accumulate on driveways and along curbs.
—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2026
Call your local representatives and ask them to support PSC Reform bills, talk to your neighbors about your bills to increase awareness, and rake up the muck.
—
Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
Five days after the storm, Mullins was still raking up some of the debris in his backyard.
—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for rake up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rake up
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The show devotes a lot of screen time to the fallout from a particular revelation and the subsequent efforts to smoke out the mole.
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To put all the smoke out is to protect the structures around the fire perimeter and to contain the fire and prevent future escape potential.
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Atlantic City acknowledged Roman Reigns before Seth Rollins interrupted him.
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The Menopause Society acknowledges a lack of long-term data on how breast cancer survivors respond to hormone replacement therapy.
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Its focus is on converting and owning the datasets, Manish Agarwal, co-founder of Humyn Labs, told CNBC.
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Baby boomer empty nesters still own almost twice the share of large homes as millennial families, according to Redfin data, and many aren’t planning on leaving any time soon.
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Last season’s Yulissa Escobar was dismissed after Redditors unearthed old videos of the event planner dropping the n-word on a podcast discussing an ex-boyfriend.
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These include an elite Viking Age burial site unearthed near Lisbjerg and engraved 9th century silver bangles, found in Elsted, that functioned as currency whose value was determined by the jewelry’s weight.
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El Tri is averaging two goals a game and has yet to concede one.
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Mexico remains unbeaten in this year’s tournament and has won four out of four games without conceding a goal.
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Elsewhere in the episode, Sheridan confessed to not caring about the opinions of television critics.
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During her trial, prosecutors played a recording of Yang confessing to Reuter's murder to a friend who was wearing a wire.
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Its argument is that humanities departments have become overly specialized, politicized, and disconnected from the goal of imparting a common body of historical knowledge.
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The values imparted to me throughout my public school education — equal opportunity, impartial justice, respect for expertise, basic honesty — have been abandoned by a new breed of politician that has turned governance itself into a blood sport.
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The company agreed to settle the case without admitting liability.
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But even Willis admits AI can be a helpful tool in the right capacity.
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“Rake up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rake%20up. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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