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hilled

verb

past tense of hill

as in piled

to form into a pile or ridge of earth hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze

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The jeers grew louder Friday and Saturday as Machado piled up four strikeouts amid two hitless nights.

— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026
The strips are piled high in plastic bins, sprawled over tables and fed underneath bobbing needles.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026

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The uniform mounded shape and purple hues of the flower spikes, along with the contrasting silvery foliage, add attractive structure and framing along the edges of paved walkways.

— Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 22 June 2026
Kent mounded up soil the couple bought from GreatSoil to create some elevation.

— Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026

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Still, the game’s result seemed minuscule when stacked against Alfonso’s personal tragedy and the earthquake’s destruction in Venezuela.

— Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The odds of making MLB are always long, but are stacked even higher against players like this.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026

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When your customers can't get banked anywhere else, the back-office cost becomes the moat.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
The plane banked to the left after takeoff and crashed less than a minute later near houses, according to the flight tracking service Flightradar24.

— Antonin Utz, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026

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