plow
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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
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
Son shed vast holdings of T-Mobile, Alibaba and even Nvidia as he sought to plow money into OpenAI, data centers and robotics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The five largest hyperscalers are set to plow more than $750 billion into their AI investment projects this year.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
In a field ahead, he saw a man and his collie dog walking behind a horse-drawn plow.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
Almost every year in the United States, a tractor-trailer plows into traffic that is stopped because of road construction, often causing deaths and injuries.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
The traffic is slow on Main Street, not because Chokecherry is big enough to have a rush hour, but because the cars have to snake around the parked trucks and plows.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Hundreds of billions are already being plowed into the build-out: Whatever investors decide for the future, “the infrastructure already built doesn’t disappear,” Swiss Re’s Haegeli said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
A week or two prior, he said, an out-of-control motorist nearly plowed into the statue of Amelia Earhart that sits next to a library bearing the famous aviator’s name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
She plowed through Oprah’s recommendations as she split-stretched in the wings of the theater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
He had plowed up quite a piece of ground before anyone noticed him.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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If you’re having a good time and not just plowing through the material, that earns you another 20% with the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
After plowing over $5 billion into LIV since it teed off in 2022, the Saudis decided that the golf league was no longer a priority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Apple’s own capital budget is relatively small compared with those of rival tech giants plowing money into AI and chip makers building new plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
Mr. Kennedy is in the school district’s mini tractor, plowing the parking lot to admit an endless stream of cars.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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