plough

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The EU needs to plough more money into its digital and green transitions as well as defence, faced with rising global instability.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

But the company pledged in its latest results to plough even more money into AI - something big tech bosses say they will spend eye-watering sums on this year.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

The EU last year also launched a raft of initiatives that it says could see its members plough an additional 800 billion euros into defence.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

It soon rendered fields impossible to plough, as lines of the goblet-shaped bushes, many of them three feet across, formed impenetrable natural fences in the paths of tractors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

The people all went off, together with the baboons, to plough the largest of the fields, which was the chief’s field.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith