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plow

[plou] / plaʊ /


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It could plow more investment into Octopus Energy and Kraken.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

What one strategist argues, therefore, is that investors should plow capital into the energy stocks providing the raw materials that technology stocks desperately require to grow.

From MarketWatch May 15, 2026

Management will plow excess cash flow into share repurchases.

From Barron's May 1, 2026

In exchange, farmers get higher productivity and yields, as modern machines plow, plant, and harvest faster and more precisely than older equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

“We even brought in everything from the silo. Mayor Radisson drove the city plow out there himself.”

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

O’Connor took some heat when 37 of the city’s plows broke down as more than 11 inches of snow buried the city in late January, forcing him to declare a state of emergency.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 2026

Your third-grader happily plows through a plate of rigatoni with meat sauce, one of the few meals he will eat without protest, blissfully unaware that extra vegetables have been blended in for structural support.

From Salon Jan. 31, 2026

Finally, some of the workers hiked down to the trailhead in snow shoes to call for help, bringing in snow plows to rescue the rest of the group, Mr Crockett said.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2025

Caltrans plows were plowing Interstate 15, the CHP said.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2025

The fields are cultivated with horse plows while books are written by machinery.

From "1984" by George Orwell

The chances of finding earthquake survivors in Colombia dropped significantly on Friday, four days after the 7.4-magnitude tremor struck, though rescue efforts plowed ahead as hundreds remained missing.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Still, the next day, June 23, CBS News’ website plowed the same dead-end road with this headline: “Vance Says Iran to Let International Nuclear Inspections Resume After ‘Good Day’ of Talks.”

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

According to brokerage statements viewed by MarketWatch, smellyfingernail liquidated his Roth IRA holdings last Tuesday and plowed the money into 1,478 shares of SpaceX at $211 apiece.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

A tearful Nancy Iskander told jurors that she was crossing a road when she saw her two older sons disappear as a white speeding Mercedes plowed through the crosswalk.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

Here it was the middle of February and I hadn’t set one fence post or plowed one foot of dirt.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Apple’s own capital budget is relatively small compared with those of rival tech giants plowing money into AI and chip makers building new plants.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Besides developing its own AI model, SpaceX is plowing money into terrestrial computing infrastructure, signing AI deals and working toward launching orbital data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

And then there’s the annual plowing of millions in DWP surplus dollars into the City Hall piggy bank, which convinces ratepayers they’re being fleeced.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Investors piled into shares of companies benefiting from the massive spending of the so-called hyperscalers — the tech giants plowing hundreds of billions of dollars into building artificial-intelligence data centers across the U.S.

From MarketWatch Jul. 5, 2026

On the west side of the dam, a black van swerved to a stop in the middle of the road, nearly plowing into some old people.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan




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