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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

"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

While there, Saavedra admitted in his plea agreement, he got a tattoo on his left ankle of the “unofficial logo” of the Lakewood station: a spade with the number 13 inside of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025

So they kept swinging the spade and striking, but the sun- blistered ground had hardened like a rock, the dirt unyielding, compressed, almost petrified.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

On that Mr. Anderson supplies stories in spades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

"I will keep campaigning to get spades in the ground as soon as possible so we can finally deliver this crucial project."

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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

The men began to prod the unforgiving earth with their spades, then reached down and lifted up the once white casket, now dirt blackened, and forced open the lid.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

In four years he has spaded up material that many a folklorist would give his magnetized recorder heads to own.

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

Professor Aiken thinks that computers will take over intellectual drudgery as power-driven tools took over spading and reaping.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forked up large clods in the back garden with a spading fork.

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