Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, and her team have played down talk of a 2020 presidential run, though she has been doing the type of spadework endemic to past candidates. (nytimes.com)
As good as the earlier films are, Ponsoldt was only doing spadework for his best yet, his tenderest. (latimes.com)
Each of the seven pastors had already done exegetical spadework in the historical - critical issues in the passage. (religion-online.org)