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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

“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

French taxes paid for the powerful artillery that breached English-held fortresses and mowed down England’s last expeditionary force, at Castillon, Gascony, in July 1453.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 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

Tom mowed lawns, washed cars and ran a lemonade stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025

I signed a few autographs on the way out of Arnold’s driveway, then mowed a few lawns, ate lunch with Louis and his crew, and headed back to the office.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

The secret, he explained, is that mowing the lawn is a cover story.

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

Like all the mowing and weeding and milking and feeding I’d been doing since five A.M. didn’t count at all.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

"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

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

Once he reached the seclusion of the freshly mown lawn, Ron rounded on Harry.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling