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
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
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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
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
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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
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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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