mow
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By then, Kent had already earned the trust of neighbors who hired him to mow their lawns or babysit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
"I just felt bad having to mow in certain areas," Morse said.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
"But if there isn't this conversation and they are going to continue to mow down these efforts, it's really demoralising."
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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
When I got home, I had to mow the lawn for my allowance, and I didn’t mind one bit.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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He mowed down the Dodgers with 11 strikeouts, limiting them to just five hits in nine innings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
When the man who mowed Leon Sandler’s lawn touted internet stocks in 1999, he sold his own, avoiding the plunge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
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
Their quiet homes sat back in their mowed yards.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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Did he say anything truly new at this fundraiser, like that he thinks James Talarico is a pretty good guy or that he enjoys wearing dresses when mowing the lawn?
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Stop doing things that are gonna cause sparks. I can't believe someone was mowing."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
The mower seemed to give a happy leap forward off the sidewalk and I was mowing the lawn.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
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"In the past it was just a field that was mown, whereas now we've got this beautiful landscape with all the seeded grasses," Brooks said.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
So if it’s a grass buffer, it must be mown and kept to a certain standard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The green is large and has a large expanse of closely mown turf to the left.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
Hughes sent his approach long on the 18th and faced a difficult putt up closely mown grass to a green and raced away from him.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
Where the van’s undercarriage had mown down the brush, spiny branches jutted up like deadly spikes.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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