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If we freeze and do nothing, the train will plough into us.

From Salon • May 20, 2023

Persistently high rates of profit give big firms plenty of money to plough into fancy research labs, but also suggest that the competitive pressures which might prompt them to exploit the resulting discoveries are weak.

From Economist • Sep. 28, 2017

I like to think that, if asked in advance, most people would choose not to plough into the kids.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2016

Backed by Sony, Grimsby was shot in the summer of 2014, wrapping just in time to plough into the crisis that engulfed the studio that November.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2016

He drove the sharp end of the plough into the soil, and held it firmly so, while the horses drew it along in a straight line.

From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Bryant, Sara Cone




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