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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

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

Using his spade as a support, Alvaro leads a quiet group back to the car.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024

He rested, holding on to the handle of the spade, his forehead in the crook of his arm.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

Owing to a potential 200% return profile, that can come in spades if the call is right.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

Ollie Chessum, brought in for his heft, delivered in spades, scoring two tries, laying on a deft pass for Alex Coles' score and clanging about in close combat.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

If there's one thing the 21st century has in spades, it's conspiracy theorists -- many of them angry, unhinged people hacking at their keyboards about grievances real and imagined.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

They dropped their spades in a clatter, grabbed the root, and hurried home.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

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

I struggled to avoid being spaded by the spinning Dunlops and to unhook my boot.

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

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

It was easy spading, since the dirt had already been turned up once; also the manure was still in it, so I did not have to haul that again.

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