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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

Officers said a metal detector and spade were seized along with a quantity of metal coins.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 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

“Well,” said Aslan, “can you use a spade and a plow and raise food out of the earth?”

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

On that Mr. Anderson supplies stories in spades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Near the central village of Baziafla, flanked by tall grass, the pit was excavated over several weeks with spades, pickaxes and crushers, before the miners were driven out of town by the local authorities.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Alex Norris said the government would be "getting spades in the ground quicker to deliver thousands more places to lock up dangerous criminals and keep the public safe".

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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

For spades, this is the final trial I need to dig myself out of.

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

With my drawn blade I spaded up the votive pit, and poured libations round it to the unnumbered dead: sweet milk and honey, then sweet wine, and last clear water; and I scattered barley down.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

Other settlers heard of it and began spading up crocks of wheat, kitchen utensils and tins of gasoline.

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