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shovel

noun as in spade

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verb as in dig

verb as in digging tool

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Another video filmed soon after the incident showed an angry pedestrian hitting the SUV with a snow shovel while the driver is still inside.

From BBC

She visited the site of the house on Thursday afternoon for the first time with a shovel in her hand, sifting through the smoldering ashes looking for anything of sentimental interest.

We were all subject to another unpleasant reminder this week when the Guardian reported that Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Project 2025, reportedly bragged to multiple people about beating his neighbor's dog to death with a shovel.

From Salon

The head of a right-wing think tank that authored the Project 2025 agenda for a second Donald Trump presidency has been accused of beating a dog to death with a shovel, The Guardian reported.

From Salon

“My recollection of his account was that he was discussing in the hallway with various members of the faculty, including me, that a neighbor’s dog had been barking pretty relentlessly and was, you know, keeping the baby and probably the parents awake and that he kind of lost it and took a shovel and killed the dog. End of problem,” Kenneth Hammond, chair of the history department, told The Guardian.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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