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The Trump Administration can rely on intellectual spade work from Sen. Roger Wicker, and many of the ideas we’ve discussed here are in the next defense authorization bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

“I mean, call a spade a spade: Bron is on his last couple of years — however many years he decides to play,” Austin Reaves said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

Officers said a metal detector and spade were seized along with a quantity of metal coins.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025

The investment firm thinks Tesla will manage through its Musk-related branding problems and its stock will rebound, but it calls a spade a spade.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2025

While supper cooks and the waterwheel turns, I spade the ditch that will carry the pond water to the plants in the meadow.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Police recovered a garden edger from Manufactum in one of the storage boxes next to other spades, trowels and garden shears.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

On the sidewalk, generations play spades in the shade and the joyful screams of children emanate from a custom bouncy house adorned with an Egyptian pharaoh bust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Life is about showing up for others, and you have done that in spades, but it’s also about enjoying what the world has to offer.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026

If there's one thing the 21st century has in spades, it's conspiracy theorists -- many of them angry, unhinged people hacking at their keyboards about grievances real and imagined.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

It is usually the fashion now to charge with bombs and spades only.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

They spaded dirt over the plot, said a prayer and drove away.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2021

As the years went by, she never plowed, spaded or even made a compost pile.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2017

The grave was quite new, and efficiently spaded; two shovels stood stiffly at its side.

From Time Magazine Archive

He admitted to the Committee that he had not been aware of many of the faults which the investigators had spaded up at Lockland, that "we weren't doing a job in some respects."

From Time Magazine Archive

With my drawn blade I spaded up the votive pit, and poured libations round it to the unnumbered dead: sweet milk and honey, then sweet wine, and last clear water; and I scattered barley down.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

President John Quincy Adams broke ground on the 185-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in 1828, spading the first shovel of dirt just across the District line.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2017

Part of the special delight of “Ghostland” is its many informed asides, revealing Dickey’s long hours of spading up obscure facts and quotes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2016

Forked up large clods in the back garden with a spading fork.

From Time Magazine Archive

He worked his way through Michigan's little Alma College by waiting tables, spading gardens, painting signs, talking himself into a job as gym instructor.

From Time Magazine Archive

But on a well-banked plot Odysseus found his father in solitude spading the earth around a young fruit tree.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer