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mow

[moh] / moʊ /
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"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

We know when it is time to mow the lawn and are annoyed when rain delays us a day or two.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

“All’s I gotta do is mow his lawn once a week and I can hang out with the baby as much as I want.”

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

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

From BBC Mar. 8, 2026

Its endowment was virtually nonexistent and money was so tight a former director mowed the lawn himself.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2025

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

They have mowed down the Cincinnati Reds, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Brewers with ruthless efficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

August, June, Rosaleen, Zach, Neil, Otis, and all the Daughters of Mary stood around on the mowed grass beside the card tables, their laughter low and vibrating.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Touch some grass: From the archives: Ben Mathis-Lilley examines the pleasures and benefits of getting out and mowing the lawn.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2026

She echoes warnings from officials, who say that innocent activities like mowing your lawn could ignite a fire.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

But a trendy personal-finance axiom is that there are three levels of wealth: mowing your own lawn, paying someone else to do it, then…mowing your own lawn.

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 mowing lines were invisible, as if the grass had been hand-combed.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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 decline of their natural habitat means curlew often breed in farmers' hayfields where their nests can be destroyed if the grass is mown in May or June, before chicks have had time to fledge.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2024

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

Wilfred and the white woman were standing on a patch of freshly mown grass in front of the first of four all-weather tennis courts, whose surface was strewn with Dunlop tennis balls.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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