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A year later, President Lyndon B. Johnson broke ground for what was to become “a living memorial to John F. Kennedy” with the gold-plated spade that President Taft had used for the Lincoln Memorial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 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

"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

We no longer have to be careful, but work away till the coffin gives with a sigh before the spade that we have dug in under it.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

The trinketty shops're full of inflatable octopuses, stunt kites, buckets, and spades.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He admitted to the Committee that he had not been aware of many of the faults which the investigators had spaded up at Lockland, that "we weren't doing a job in some respects."

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

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

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

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