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Recent Examples of spadework
But the day-to-day spadework is already underway.
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Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2021
Early spadework for the new batch of projects also dates back to the City of Cleveland’s 2004 Waterfront District Plan.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
This was Biden’s third such visit to a House battleground in eight days, as the White House has married the president’s summer sales pitch for his infrastructure plans in Congress to Democrats’ political spadework ahead of the 2022 election.
—Eli Stokols Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
The rationale was that this laborious spadework brought loamy topsoil down to subsoil level to promote deep rooting, relieved soil compaction and allowed the gardener to improve both sandy and clay soils by adding compost.
—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 14 July 2021
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Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2021
Early spadework for the new batch of projects also dates back to the City of Cleveland’s 2004 Waterfront District Plan.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
This was Biden’s third such visit to a House battleground in eight days, as the White House has married the president’s summer sales pitch for his infrastructure plans in Congress to Democrats’ political spadework ahead of the 2022 election.
—Eli Stokols Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
The rationale was that this laborious spadework brought loamy topsoil down to subsoil level to promote deep rooting, relieved soil compaction and allowed the gardener to improve both sandy and clay soils by adding compost.
—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 14 July 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spadework
Noun
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The period from July, 1957, to December, 1958, was designated the International Geophysical Year, a global scientific effort to understand the Earth and its environment.—
Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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Elon Musk's Tesla has become a rallying point for protestors outraged with how the world's richest man has insinuated himself into President Trump's administration and led efforts to slash government agencies.—
April Rubin,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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Traven Sharon stalked the center mat at Ball Arena Saturday night with two letters and a number, faded by sweat and toil — BB1 — scribbled on the outside of his left shoe.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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Too much mainstream music now sees itself as a refuge from real-world toils.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2025
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Demaree, who was a captain in the U.S. Army and saw such drudgery firsthand, cofounded Onebrief in 2019, getting some traction after convincing lower-rung officers that his product could automate updates to the vast planning process.—
David Jeans,
Forbes,
28 Jan. 2025
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Read more: The Best Mattresses on Amazon Keeping a clean house doesn’t have to be pure drudgery—not with a super lightweight stick vacuum or a Roomba vacuum-mop that does all the heavy lifting for you (which is a whopping 45% off for Prime members right now).—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
16 July 2024
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In addition, heavy exercise done while experiencing a respiratory viral illness can lead to chronic fatigue and even exacerbate myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, according to a 2021 study published in the journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.—
Melanie Radzicki McManus,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on little sleep, raising concerns that fatigue impaired their judgment.—
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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Horse-girl stories often featured young female protagonists who overcame challenges, experienced emotional growth, and developed relationships through the trials and travails of horseback riding.—
Rebecca Scofield / Made by History,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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He’s often accompanied by his day-drinking pals Jaime and Oscar, two other inventively drawn La-La Land castoffs with their own eccentric show biz travels and travails.—
Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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But opposition to the expansion of slavery was the unifying principle of the young Republican Party.—
Jeffrey Schmitt,
The Conversation,
28 Feb. 2025
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Until right before the Civil War, the politics of statehood closely tracked the nation's antebellum divide over slavery.—
Geoffrey Skelley,
ABC News,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Spadework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spadework. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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