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The Trump Administration can rely on intellectual spade work from Sen. Roger Wicker, and many of the ideas we’ve discussed here are in the next defense authorization bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

“I mean, call a spade a spade: Bron is on his last couple of years — however many years he decides to play,” Austin Reaves said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

"Let's call a spade a spade," Celine Imart, the French member of the parliament who led the initiative was quoted by AFP news agency as saying about plant-based products.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

The investment firm thinks Tesla will manage through its Musk-related branding problems and its stock will rebound, but it calls a spade a spade.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2025

He dug potatoes out of the earth with a spade and cut down hay with a scythe.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Morris and his assistants have invested time in teaching players to play dominoes and spades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon celebrated the signing in April of the free trade deal with the world's most populous nation, touting an export boom that would deliver jobs and investment in spades.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Force said: "We've got members of the community to come down with picks, shovels and spades and all there rest of it to get stuck in and clear as much of this as we can."

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

On the sidewalk, generations play spades in the shade and the joyful screams of children emanate from a custom bouncy house adorned with an Egyptian pharaoh bust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

I tell her about the spades, the names, and that I’m heading over to the library in the afternoon.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

They spaded dirt over the plot, said a prayer and drove away.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2021

As the years went by, she never plowed, spaded or even made a compost pile.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2017

Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve.

From Time Magazine Archive

The grave was quite new, and efficiently spaded; two shovels stood stiffly at its side.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was spading up a place for a garden in front of The Dump, and I’m not lying, this was hard work, since no one had spaded up this ground since forever.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

President John Quincy Adams broke ground on the 185-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in 1828, spading the first shovel of dirt just across the District line.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2017

Part of the special delight of “Ghostland” is its many informed asides, revealing Dickey’s long hours of spading up obscure facts and quotes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2016

The fiercely spading students were assisting with the excavating of foundations upon which it is proposed to erect the Tsubouchi-Shakespeare Memorial Library.

From Time Magazine Archive

He worked his way through Michigan's little Alma College by waiting tables, spading gardens, painting signs, talking himself into a job as gym instructor.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was spading up a place for a garden in front of The Dump, and I’m not lying, this was hard work, since no one had spaded up this ground since forever.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt