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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
The bullet had plowed a small hole through the gobblers’ body, high in the back.
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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
Through 53 miles of relentless blizzard, Balto pressed on — plowing through snow drifts, skating over frozen rivers, pushing against unforgiving winds.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
At the same time, Republicans on Capitol Hill are plowing forward with legislation that would lock in lower taxes for American individuals and companies.
—Andrew Duehren, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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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
Through 53 miles of relentless blizzard, Balto pressed on — plowing through snow drifts, skating over frozen rivers, pushing against unforgiving winds.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
At the same time, Republicans on Capitol Hill are plowing forward with legislation that would lock in lower taxes for American individuals and companies.
—Andrew Duehren, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plow
Verb
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Each year, rake away debris from the base of the plant to help get rid of overwintering pests and apply fresh mulch.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
3 Apr. 2025
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The outbreak of tornadoes raked through towns under the cover of darkness — the most dangerous and deadly time for a tornado outbreak.—
Eric Zerkel,
CNN,
15 Mar. 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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Iran has cultivated an astonishing intellectual and artistic depth with far fewer resources than many other nations.—
Rebecca Ruth Gould,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Apr. 2025
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It must be cultivated with intention and consistency, and often, small steps are required to build it.—
Dr. Jennifer Bryant,
Forbes.com,
9 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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Their economy is struggling, and the export sector has been one of its few bright spots.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
Verb
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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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By then, Reggie was 31, had graduated college and was working for a pharmaceutical company near San Antonio.—
Paul LaRosa,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Tan was most recently president of Loewe Asia, and has worked for a host of European luxury brands out of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
11 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 24 Apr. 2025.
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