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as in piling
to form into a pile or ridge of earth
mound the mulch around the plants
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as in stacking
to lay or throw on top of one another
mounding slices of cheese on top of her sandwich meat
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Recent Examples of mounding
Set out salad plates, mounding each with the salad (or serve on a large platter).
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Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
McDearmon would take a look and suggest mounding some of it for a little elevation.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026
Blue-black berries form in late summer and decorate the dense, mounding evergreen shrub through winter.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Dec. 2025
Place apple mixture on top of cranberries, mounding slightly in center; push down any sharp apple edges.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
McDearmon would take a look and suggest mounding some of it for a little elevation.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026
Blue-black berries form in late summer and decorate the dense, mounding evergreen shrub through winter.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Dec. 2025
Place apple mixture on top of cranberries, mounding slightly in center; push down any sharp apple edges.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mounding
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The oil blockade has crushed tourism, fueled unaffordable gas prices, forced hospitals to ration care and left garbage piling up in the streets.—
Rafi Schwartz,
TheWeek,
17 Mar. 2026
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And new problems are piling up at a dizzying rate.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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Jaguars senior Valentine operated from the mid-post like a certain Joker who plays a few miles down the road, stacking dimes on silver platters and scoring 13 points around the rim.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
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The Huskies have had too many such games in too short a span for an outside observer to feel good about their chances of stacking six solid performances in the NCAA Tournament.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2026
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That’s also where the classic debate, clumping vs non-clumping litter, shows up.—
Svetlana Khachiyan,
USA Today,
19 Dec. 2025
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Alzheon's product is meant to keep plaques from forming in the first place, by preventing amyloid proteins from clumping at all.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
29 Oct. 2025
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This process is called hilling and creates an area of loose soil where tubers easily form while being shaded from the sun.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Mounding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mounding. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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