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Kamara - who scored a stunning winner against Wolves last month - is viewed as almost unique, someone who can do the unglamourous spade work without the ball, at a subtle but high technical level.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

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

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

Two years ago, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department internal investigators learned about a group of Lakewood station deputies who shared a common tattoo of a spade, with the number 13.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025

Razi immediately threw down the spade and leaped after her.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

On that Mr. Anderson supplies stories in spades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The most electable progressives are instead happy warriors, a quality Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have in spades.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 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

We saw families and volunteers, wearing masks and rubber gloves, trying to dig through the rubble with spades and crowbars.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Their front paws were curiously flat, like spades, and they were blinking up at the class, looking politely puzzled at all the attention.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

This happened on the fourth day, after a long session in which the plowed and salted earth of the Nixon era—Chile, wiretaps, Watergate—was spaded again and again.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pups Albert Mazarak, callous Jersey City dweller, spaded recently in his back yard beneath a neighbor's inquiring eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

She raked away our dead leaves, spaded new soil around us, and watered and fertilized.

From "The Wednesday Wars" 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

In Topeka, Kans., after spading a hole in his backyard for use as a tornado hideaway, Grist Haydon was visited by a deputy tax assessor, who placed a value of $150 on the diggings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kennedy's out-of-state legwork made many a Democrat indebted; Kennedy's backyard spading produced a record-breaking, 870,000-vote plurality for him and high-lift coattails for other Massachusetts Democrats.

From Time Magazine Archive

But on a well-banked plot Odysseus found his father in solitude spading the earth around a young fruit tree.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer