Tom Watson

My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the professional circuit when I qualified. I didn't know whether I was gonna make a dime. I didn't know anything but this one thing: I had some dreams, and I was gonna work harder than anybody out here to ply my trade.

American Golfer

John Battelle

Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example.

American Businessman

Eric Greitens

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

American Politician

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.

American Journalist

Josh Barnett

Fighting is not the only thing in my life. It never was the only thing in my life. I have other pathways if I have to ply a trade. I wouldn't be sad about doing these other things, either. I enjoy them as well.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Christopher Daniels

When you're that comfortable with your own product, with your own work rate - so to speak - that's when you become valuable. That's when people start vying for you, to ply your trade in their wrestling match.

Mark Hughes

If Ryan Giggs was plying his trade and been the player he had been here in a foreign league, he would go straight from playing to an AC Milan or Inter Milan or any top European club out of the mix.

Welsh Athlete

Vince Lombardi

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

American Coach

Adam Sandler

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

American Actor

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Critic

Use 'ply' to emphasize the regular and often skilled nature of an activity.

Regularity Emphasis

'Ply one's trade' often refers to professionals like artisans and traders regularly practicing their work.

Professional Context

'Ply' suggests a regular transit over a fixed route or area, used mainly in maritime and transport contexts.

Specific Routes

This use of 'ply' is often for vehicles or vessels rather than individual travelers.

Frequent Travel

Refers to layers within materials, common in textiles, plywood, or paper products, emphasizing multiplicity.

Material Layers

Higher 'ply' suggests greater thickness and often higher quality and durability in materials.

Thickness Implication

When 'plying' a tool, emphasis is on the skillful and diligent use, not just holding or owning.

Diligent Use

Suggests a dynamic, active process of working with something, often tools or instruments.

Active Endeavor

 laboratories around the world we've been studying fly behaviors and little flight simulators you can tether a fly to a little stick you can measure the aerodynamic forces it's creating you can let the ply it fly play a little video game by letting it fly around and in a visual display so let me show you a little tiny sequence of this here's a

How a fly flies -...

 could share information about how the offshore world was being used to hide the trade in both of those commodities. Those interested in sport could share information about how famous sports stars were putting their image rights into offshore companies, thereby likely avoiding taxes in the countries where they plied their trade.

How the Panama Papers...

 And part of the joy of it is, you know the difficulty. You also may be taking into account the fact that it's incredibly painful. Anybody seen a ballet dancer's toes when they come out of the points? While she's doing these graceful arabesques and plies and what have you, something horrible's going on down here.

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 here for thousands of years plying the ancient trade routes with caravans and camels here you'll find that many towns along the edge of the Sahara offer tourists a tastes of desert life a chance to ride across the sands run along the dunes and sleep under the stars

Destination North Africa...

 south poles these dogs still ply the snows of the extreme north their endurance put to the test in competitions like the Iditarod dog sled race dogs often contribute to our lives by working alongside us but they also save lives when sudden disasters like an

Working Dogs PIPE National...

 how you cannot respond to this problem. Can you ply your mind for that one way that you can respond to the problem? And that's what I'm here for, asking for your support, demanding for your support, requesting for your support.

The fight against sex...

 once a colored gemstone pocket is found there's usually a by a broker waiting to buy the stones sometimes it's exploitative ly low prices and using questionable tactics such as plying the

Justice for gem miners ...

 to their Ancient Roman counterparts; many farmed or plied a specific trade, such as ceramics, leatherworking, fishing, weaving, or manufacturing silk. But, of course, the Byzantine Empire

The rise and fall of the...

 going because what I turn around to do look at that destroyed yeah that's a typical burst that happens on cross ply tires by reaching over four times its normal

Blowing Up an Airplane...

 harsh waters but the fish that called this river home are not just strange they're also huge anglers from around the world have plied