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as in piles
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor
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as in hills
an area of high ground
a pitcher's mound
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as in heaps
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 mounds
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
30 June 2026
Archaeologists have determined the mounds served ceremonial, spiritual and burial functions, though many details of their cultural significance remain a mystery.
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Joe Yogerst,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
Weigh them down further by placing rocks or mounds of soil along the edges to deter would-be diggers from lifting or getting around them.
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Nashia Baker,
Martha Stewart,
25 June 2026
Moles often get blamed for vole damage, but moles are insectivores that make tunnels and mounds to follow insects, while voles are herbivores that eat anything from edibles to ornamental plants.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
24 June 2026
At the time, certain teams wore BLM patches and stenciled the BLM logo onto the pitcher’s mounds.
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David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
19 June 2026
The Southeast coast and the Florida Keys are usually most heavily impacted by mounds of sargassum washing ashore — over the past few months, the seaweed has been cropping up in places like Cocoa Beach and Miami Beach.
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Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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Helicopter flyovers of Big Cypress National Preserve identified remote indigenous mounds, to this day largely unexplored.
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Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
30 June 2026
Archaeologists have determined the mounds served ceremonial, spiritual and burial functions, though many details of their cultural significance remain a mystery.
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Joe Yogerst,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
Weigh them down further by placing rocks or mounds of soil along the edges to deter would-be diggers from lifting or getting around them.
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Nashia Baker,
Martha Stewart,
25 June 2026
Moles often get blamed for vole damage, but moles are insectivores that make tunnels and mounds to follow insects, while voles are herbivores that eat anything from edibles to ornamental plants.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
24 June 2026
At the time, certain teams wore BLM patches and stenciled the BLM logo onto the pitcher’s mounds.
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David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
19 June 2026
The Southeast coast and the Florida Keys are usually most heavily impacted by mounds of sargassum washing ashore — over the past few months, the seaweed has been cropping up in places like Cocoa Beach and Miami Beach.
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Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mounds
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According to information presented in court, Fleming committed three armed robberies of banks in Denton between November 2022 and February 2023.
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He is also said to be meeting with banks to discuss financing for the transaction.
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This could include sniffing around more than usual or barking and growling at odd places like piles of leaves.
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The alternating placements of the piles/objects are very precise, which creates a series of chicanes, indicating they are not intended as obstructions but rather to prevent rapid ingress and egress by any vehicle toward the tunnels.
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The coast is dotted with colorful fishing villages, while the region’s interior is made up of rolling green hills and gently sloped vineyards.
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As Genesis 19 continues, Lot and his two daughters take shelter in a cave in the nearby hills.
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Another scans and stacks them for the next part of the warehouse process.
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To overcome the physical scaling limits facing modern chip designers, IBM’s new nanostack architecture vertically stacks transistors in a staggered layout to pack more transistors into the same chip space.
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Offering stunning views of snowcapped mountains in the distance, this is a relatively flat, flowing course with plenty of birdie opportunities.
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Southeast of the Snyder fire, the Gold Mountain fire burning north of Ouray in Colorado’s mountains also surged in size on Sunday, jumping from roughly 572 acres to 7,103 acres with no containment, according to state officials.
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California purchased the swath of rocky cliffs and windswept shoreline in the 1960s to expand the construction of Highway 1 and create a scenic viewpoint for highway travelers, according to a California Coastal Commission report.
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Instead of sheer cliffs and waterfalls, the landscape is open and often windswept.
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Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
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However, sometimes the abnormal IgA (the antibody that clumps up and causes problems) does run in families.
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The scent of fresh sourdough drifts from one room as the aroma of Korean soul food fill the air in another.
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Look for compact cultivars with burgundy or deep plum foliage that contrasts with the bright flowers, or a green variety covered in drifts of white blooms.
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“Mounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mounds. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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