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Volunteers took advantage of low water levels to shovel silt and prepare for the return of rain after previous flooding.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Wood thinks it’s also worth noting that the pick and shovel stocks are getting their earnings from the capex boom upfront.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

On a recent scorching afternoon, he stood on top of a truck, leveling out the stones with a shovel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

"The person was pinned down but could move their hand. And I got them out alive," said Faramaya, who says he uses "nothing but a pickaxe and a shovel" to pick through the rubble.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

“Well, this morning he walked over to one of the huts that’s being built. He picked up a shovel and took it. Just took it and walked away.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

What they share is a shortage of shovels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The charity said 27 of its staff and volunteers were out helping fight the blaze earlier in the week, using equipment including all-terrain vehicles with water bowsers, backpack hoses and shovels.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

A growing sense of fatigue with the artificial intelligence trade and the related arms race is prompting one strategist to advise that investors stick with the so-called picks and shovels rather than the spenders.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Rescuers used what tools they could scrounge — shovels, hoes, pickaxes, their bare hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

What else did we keep there but hoes and shovels and rakes?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

Better hope enough snow has been shoveled for you to step clear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

The snow has been shoveled to the side, but it remains hazardous for both pedestrians and drivers, and needs an extra boost to go away in a timely fashion.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

The share count will increase when newly created stock is shoveled to executives as part of their compensation or if shares are issued to help pay for acquisitions.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 2025

Crews wearing hazmat suits shoveled mounds of ash into plastic garbage bags.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025

Styx tipped a shoulder and shoveled in more lettuce.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

The mud in the pit is sifted and shovelled.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

All memory of Nancy's reign - if you want to call it that - will be shovelled under a carpet now by anybody and everybody culpable in the process of appointing him.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

"I'm planning to share it with my family and friends," the investment expert said, as cinema workers shovelled the popcorn into buckets and boxes.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2022

Elsewhere in the central Madagascar region of Haute Matsiatra villagers shovelled mud from a road on Sunday to clear damage from a landslide caused by Batsirai.

From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2022

Or was it all thrown away, shovelled into dustpans?

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

His days on the railroad involved long hours shoveling coal into the furnaces that fed locomotive steam engines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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

Don’t miss: ‘I was shoveling sidewalks at 8 years old’: I’m a 73-year-old boomer dad with two kids.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026

This exciting nutrition system may include fun things like nearly blinding your boss with direct sunlight at an open-air business lunch, or shoveling food in your face from 5:10 to 5:11 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

She was halfway through her meal, shoveling meat and bread down her throat, when the dining room door opened.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Images released by state media showed Kim shovelling soil alongside other officials at a ceremony attended by an excited crowd clapping and waving North Korean flags.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

And yet against the Waratahs they were still shovelling the ball out the backline without doing the hard yards up front.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

Miller blasted a long shot toward the Oilers’ net and Lindholm picked it up, kicking the puck to his stick at the bottom of the slot, then shovelling a backhanded shot into the Edmonton net.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024

On a sun-scorched shoreline in Iraq's southern marshlands, fishermen stood shovelling a grim catch: tiny fish gathered dead from the water, fit only for use as animal fodder.

From Reuters ● Jun. 5, 2023

The boy grasped the barking animal, and Joseph pulled them both down behind the car just as the man shovelling snow turned around.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick