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Recent Examples of shovel
And when Anderson shoveled a pass behind him to Bam Adebayo, White quickly made up several feet of ground to steal the ball from the big man.
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Jay King, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
After Hart shoveled the ball to Jalen Brunson, Andrew Nembhard stymied Brunson, causing the ball to go out of bounds and nearly forcing a turnover.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 31 May 2025
He's also noticed that workers often shovel coal in bouts, working hard in teams of two or three, and then all taking breaks together.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 18 May 2025
The genius minds behind shoveling money in the general direction of shiny and mostly television-shaped content at Apple TV+ have hit on a genius premise: What if there was a French chef who had a little earring?
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 May 2025
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Jay King, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
After Hart shoveled the ball to Jalen Brunson, Andrew Nembhard stymied Brunson, causing the ball to go out of bounds and nearly forcing a turnover.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 31 May 2025
He's also noticed that workers often shovel coal in bouts, working hard in teams of two or three, and then all taking breaks together.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 18 May 2025
The genius minds behind shoveling money in the general direction of shiny and mostly television-shaped content at Apple TV+ have hit on a genius premise: What if there was a French chef who had a little earring?
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shovel
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Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
14 July 2025
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Circularity done properly is more efficient and cheaper than dig and dump.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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From 2004 to 2009, a team excavated the Neumark-Nord 2 site year-round, even training over 175 international students in the process.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
12 July 2025
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In time, settlers would excavate and plunder countless ancestral ruins across the Southwest, with artifacts carried off to private collections and museum displays.—
Mike Bezemek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
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“Shovel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shovel. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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