mowing
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But a trendy personal-finance axiom is that there are three levels of wealth: mowing your own lawn, paying someone else to do it, then…mowing your own lawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
For the tourists' benefit, Vlkolinec puts on traditional craft demonstrations, from sewing folk costumes and gingerbread decorating to mowing and haymaking.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
"I counsel people to wear hearing protection when they're mowing grass instead of listening to music through earbuds," Price said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
In Lawn Mowing Simulator players "experience the beauty and detail of mowing the Great British countryside" by running a lawn care business, using "real-world licensed lawnmowers".
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
Mom, Dad, you know how I’ve been mowing lawns every day?
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
The outfield grass is a cow’s or pro golfer’s dream– lush, smooth, preternaturally green, with crisscross stripes laid down by artisanal mowings.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2016
I have eaten grass mowings regularly for over three years, and off many lawns.
From Time Magazine Archive
He collects fresh mowings, washes them tenderly, sets them out in the sun to dry, then nibbles them with fruit and cheese, or tosses them up with dressing in a variety of tasty salads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sample: grass mowings with "broken Dad's Cookie Biscuits and currants"; with equal quantities of rose petals; with uncooked oats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again he was in Vermont in the stretch of mowings that fronted the old white house where he was born.
From Ted and the Telephone by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
