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mow

[moh] / moʊ /
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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

Residents who live in the vicinity of Church Pulverbatch Parish Council in Shropshire have spent the past year sowing wildflower meadows and encouraging no mow areas.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

"I just felt bad having to mow in certain areas," Morse said.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 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

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

“It’s just like when I mowed lawns — let’s seize the day and make it your routine,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 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

“You might ask Tidings as well. He misses Dismay, too. He hasn’t mowed the grass all week. He just sits on the mower and thinks.”

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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

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

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

That way I don’t have no mowing to tend to and she let me pick whatever I need, save me two or three dollars ever week.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

A bunker is to the right, but it’s otherwise closely mown turf that allows for options on a recovery shot.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 2023

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

Outside the air smells summery, of mown grass and warm tar, and from somewhere high in the trees I hear a woodpecker rapping.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord




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