plow
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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
Meanwhile, the strength of a brand like “60 Minutes” is its ability to plow through heavy seas emanating from corporate politics—that is, unless overly entitled employees muff it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
To achieve that, sell some growth stocks and plow the proceeds into value.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
He reminded of my friend Don Gabriel, the bracero who stood up to Díaz, the labor contractor, who tried to force Don Gabriel to pull a plow like an ox.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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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
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
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
I can feel the excitement of the students, as he, without any hesitation, plows straight into the rock.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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A week or two prior, he said, an out-of-control motorist nearly plowed into the statue of Amelia Earhart that sits next to a library bearing the famous aviator’s name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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
They each plowed millions into a New York congressional primary featuring state lawmaker Alex Bores, one of the authors of the state’s AI safety bill that passed last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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
Farther out, enormous robotic barges plowed through the waves.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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Five of the 11 have either already lost primaries or announced their retirements, while the other six are plowing ahead with reelection bids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
He read late into the night, often long after I’d fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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