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plow

[plau] / plaʊ /


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To pay for the condo, we sold a chunk of investments, but we expect to plow money from our home sale back into our portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

Insurance costs have gone up significantly as severe storms, hail and occasional tornadoes plow through the area, Helbig noted.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

It could plow more investment into Octopus Energy and Kraken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As excitement built, the Journal ran stories about investors planning to plow their kids’ college funds into it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

He raced in circles around the tractor, a habit he had picked up years ago when my father would plow or mow and sometimes flush quail or partridge hidden in the field.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Yet U.S. commercial airports remove snow manually with plows, brushes, blowers and shovels, along with chemical de-icers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

Roads slowed to a crawl as plows struggled to keep up, and officials urged drivers to stay home if possible.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

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

Almost every year in the United States, a tractor-trailer plows into traffic that is stopped because of road construction, often causing deaths and injuries.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

She loaded wood on wagons, split rails, and knew more about mules and hoes and plows than she did about the interior of a house.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Srour said Gonzaba plowed through the boardwalk and hit his bike, according to the TV station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

She plowed through Oprah’s recommendations as she split-stretched in the wings of the theater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

Against the left wall glowed a bank of servers and laptops, their screen savers flashing pictures of plowed fields and tractors.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Meanwhile, in U.S. supermarkets, fresh-lettuce sales are sliding, and California farmers are plowing their crops back into the ground as demand slumps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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

Huge furrows of exposed earth and rock were dug everywhere, as if some giant farmer had gone raving mad while plowing his field.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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