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Humorist Will Rogers famously joked to President Calvin Coolidge: "If that was my lake, I'd mow it."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

In exchange, "they don't have to mow as often", to ensure the panels function properly, but also, and more importantly, to comply with bushfire prevention regulations.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

So for now, the robots being rolled out in cities are friendly and low-profile—they mow lawns, clean beaches and guide people through buildings, among other things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

If you don’t mow your lawn, the city will give you a notice, and then mow it for you, attaching the cost to your water bill.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025

He raced in circles around the tractor, a habit he had picked up years ago when my father would plow or mow and sometimes flush quail or partridge hidden in the field.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

The scent of freshly mowed grass and the sight of rolling fairways will always set a golfer’s heart aflutter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

They mowed it, raked it and planted herbs and wildflowers, a London tribunal heard.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026

Adjessom was a student at Davidson High School, and loved ones describe him as a good-natured and generous teen who mowed his neighbors’ lawns on the weekends.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2025

Roki Sasaki mowed down the Reds in order in the ninth inning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2025

The lawn outside the American embassy in Islamabad was neatly mowed, dotted with circular clusters of flowers, bordered by razor-straight hedges.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

In case you’ve forgotten, mowing the lawn was central to Boehner’s everyman image when he was in office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

For the tourists' benefit, Vlkolinec puts on traditional craft demonstrations, from sewing folk costumes and gingerbread decorating to mowing and haymaking.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

"I counsel people to wear hearing protection when they're mowing grass instead of listening to music through earbuds," Price said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

Day-to-day upkeep like mowing the lawn, shoveling snow and even basic housekeeping can become burdensome or unsafe as physical limitations increase.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

Here the silhouette in paint of a man mowing a lawn.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

A Scottish cycling charity is backing calls for more responsible use of e-bikes after a cyclist claimed he was mown down by a food delivery driver.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023

The green is large and has a large expanse of closely mown turf to the left.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

Opportunities for subtlety, though few and far between, are mown down with theatrical oomph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

Over the years, he recorded the date of flowering from the mown field as well as a similar grass field that was not mown.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The grass under their feet was smooth and short, as if it had been mown or shaven.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien