mow
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Every week he would mow the yards after he lost his job and took pride in landscaping the grass, but that was just the surface of what he meant to us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"I just felt bad having to mow in certain areas," Morse said.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
In exchange, "they don't have to mow as often", to ensure the panels function properly, but also, and more importantly, to comply with bushfire prevention regulations.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
So for now, the robots being rolled out in cities are friendly and low-profile—they mow lawns, clean beaches and guide people through buildings, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Maggie told Hannah that we’d mow the lawn for her all summer if she drove us to Saint Augustine’s.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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They mowed it, raked it and planted herbs and wildflowers, a London tribunal heard.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
French taxes paid for the powerful artillery that breached English-held fortresses and mowed down England’s last expeditionary force, at Castillon, Gascony, in July 1453.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Adjessom was a student at Davidson High School, and loved ones describe him as a good-natured and generous teen who mowed his neighbors’ lawns on the weekends.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2025
Roki Sasaki mowed down the Reds in order in the ninth inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2025
In 1950, nearly three in five black women in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital city, worked as maids for white families, and almost three-quarters of employed black men mowed lawns and did other kinds of unskilled labor.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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Touch some grass: From the archives: Ben Mathis-Lilley examines the pleasures and benefits of getting out and mowing the lawn.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
She echoes warnings from officials, who say that innocent activities like mowing your lawn could ignite a fire.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
She could still hear the hum of cars, but mostly it was crickets and breezes through the tall grasses of the cornfields and the big front yards in need of mowing.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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So if it’s a grass buffer, it must be mown and kept to a certain standard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
A Scottish cycling charity is backing calls for more responsible use of e-bikes after a cyclist claimed he was mown down by a food delivery driver.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023
The green is large and has a large expanse of closely mown turf to the left.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
The ninth hole was particularly tough, playing at 492 yards into the wind, with fairways mown toward the tee so balls lose some of the roll into the grain of the grass.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Seth started across the lush, neatly mown lawn toward the nearest gazebo.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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