trowel
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When I saw her, brandishing a hard hat and trowel at a housebuilding site, there seemed no question of her going anywhere.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025
We used a hand trowel to collect samples in Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu in late March.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025
This is after all a horror picture, and Stevenson layers on the horror tropes with a trowel, so much so that the movie descends into wretched excessiveness.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024
The team of researchers used a trowel to shave 1 to 2 centimeters of snow from the surface of 130 polar bear prints left near Alaska’s North Slope.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 5, 2023
Reaching for the trowel in his back pocket, he had realized that the textile was still in his hand, and asked if I would mind hanging on to it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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