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spade

[speyd] / speɪd /
NOUN
tool
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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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

And then there's cutlery - specifically the size of 'normal' forks, which to her make it look as though people are eating with a garden spade.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 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 supper cooks and the waterwheel turns, I spade the ditch that will carry the pond water to the plants in the meadow.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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