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plow

[plou] / plaʊ /


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To pay for the condo, we sold a chunk of investments, but we expect to plow money from our home sale back into our portfolio.

From MarketWatch Aug. 23, 2026

Insurance costs have gone up significantly as severe storms, hail and occasional tornadoes plow through the area, Helbig noted.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

As excitement built, the Journal ran stories about investors planning to plow their kids’ college funds into it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Meanwhile, the strength of a brand like “60 Minutes” is its ability to plow through heavy seas emanating from corporate politics—that is, unless overly entitled employees muff it up.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

It was a rough map, showing the garden, the big stone near the middle, and the way the furrows made by the plow would curve around it, rather like waves around a boat.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

In Providence, a city spokesman told The Providence Journal that more than 300 vehicles had been towed for parking in the way of plows.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2026

Yet U.S. commercial airports remove snow manually with plows, brushes, blowers and shovels, along with chemical de-icers.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

Roads slowed to a crawl as plows struggled to keep up, and officials urged drivers to stay home if possible.

From Salon Dec. 27, 2025

Caltrans plows were plowing Interstate 15, the CHP said.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2025

But none of them pulled plows or wagons, none bore riders, none except dogs pulled sleds or became war machines, and none of them have been as important for food as have big domestic mammals.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The chances of finding earthquake survivors in Colombia dropped significantly on Friday, four days after the 7.4-magnitude tremor struck, though rescue efforts plowed ahead as hundreds remained missing.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Overall, GM plowed more than $40 billion into its automation push.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Still, the next day, June 23, CBS News’ website plowed the same dead-end road with this headline: “Vance Says Iran to Let International Nuclear Inspections Resume After ‘Good Day’ of Talks.”

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

According to brokerage statements viewed by MarketWatch, smellyfingernail liquidated his Roth IRA holdings last Tuesday and plowed the money into 1,478 shares of SpaceX at $211 apiece.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

It had been a warm winter and a balmy spring in Bone Gap, so everyone with a field and a taste for corn had plowed and planted earlier than they’d ever dared before.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Besides developing its own AI model, SpaceX is plowing money into terrestrial computing infrastructure, signing AI deals and working toward launching orbital data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, in U.S. supermarkets, fresh-lettuce sales are sliding, and California farmers are plowing their crops back into the ground as demand slumps.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

And then there’s the annual plowing of millions in DWP surplus dollars into the City Hall piggy bank, which convinces ratepayers they’re being fleeced.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Investors piled into shares of companies benefiting from the massive spending of the so-called hyperscalers — the tech giants plowing hundreds of billions of dollars into building artificial-intelligence data centers across the U.S.

From MarketWatch Jul. 5, 2026

Dad brought it in when he came from plowing in the oat stubble.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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