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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
Rafael Peña, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
Huge snow piles, huge snow mounds.
—CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
Hike the King’s Trail, originally built as a footpath for royalty, to see coastal views, burial mounds, and black rock coves.
—Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Remnants of shell middens (high mounds of shells accumulated from long term group settlement) can still be found within the reserve.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
Followers of the Hopewell tradition constructed the Toolesboro mounds.
—Michael Plummer, Des Moines Register, 1 Mar. 2026
Funtjar’s is the last in the row and the closest to the mounds of rock on the other side of the fence.
—Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2026
Wearing a pom pom hat and mittens and shovel in hand, a smiling Michelle Wu is trying to convince residents that the massive snow mounds plaguing city streets are not a bad thing, but a joyful experience.
—Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
By the time the sun rose at the shore, the video showed a winter wonderland, with mounds of untouched snow covering trees and homes.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
The soft glow of lanterns against ancient mounds turns a seemingly simple walk into a reflective, cinematic journey through American history.
—Rafael Peña, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
Huge snow piles, huge snow mounds.
—CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
Hike the King’s Trail, originally built as a footpath for royalty, to see coastal views, burial mounds, and black rock coves.
—Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
Remnants of shell middens (high mounds of shells accumulated from long term group settlement) can still be found within the reserve.
—Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
Followers of the Hopewell tradition constructed the Toolesboro mounds.
—Michael Plummer, Des Moines Register, 1 Mar. 2026
Funtjar’s is the last in the row and the closest to the mounds of rock on the other side of the fence.
—Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2026
Wearing a pom pom hat and mittens and shovel in hand, a smiling Michelle Wu is trying to convince residents that the massive snow mounds plaguing city streets are not a bad thing, but a joyful experience.
—Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 26 Feb. 2026
By the time the sun rose at the shore, the video showed a winter wonderland, with mounds of untouched snow covering trees and homes.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mounds
Noun
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Musk also requested that the banks advertise on X, though this request was reportedly less of an emphasis.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
5 Apr. 2026
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Given its massive size, SpaceX is in talks with at least 21 banks to sell the securities to investors, Reuters reported.—
The Los Angeles Times,
Boston Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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On Saturday morning, piles of bricks and mud were all that were left, along with blankets, cooking utensils and other personal belongings salvaged from the rubble and set into a pile.—
Elena Becatoros,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Apr. 2026
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Start with one dedicated space and make piles for keep, toss, and donate.—
Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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Hours and hours of rolling green hills and rice paddies passed by the windows, the pale pools amid the shoots flashing bits of sky.—
Cassandra Neyenesch,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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The villagers become sympathetic to the revolutionaries, who hide in the hills, and increasingly radicalized.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2026
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To solve the couple's particular design puzzle, the studio came up with Light House, a vertical home that places each of the family’s major activities in its own dedicated box and playfully stacks them on top of one another.—
Stefan Ionescu
March 30,
New Atlas,
30 Mar. 2026
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For those craving excess, the legendary Quadzilla stacks four third-pound patties with American cheese and full toppings.—
Susan Stapleton,
Des Moines Register,
25 Mar. 2026
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The McLaughlin's spring break vacation to Colorado's mountains required a hard shift in plans following a historically warm and dry winter.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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The storms delivered heavy rainfall directly into the Lake Tahoe basin, while also dumping substantial snowfall across the surrounding mountains.—
Amanda Greenwood,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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For most of the year, the animals roam the island’s northern pastures, hills and cliffs, but in the days before Christmas, they’re rounded up and brought to the shearing pens.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Visit stretches of sand like Cape Drastis to view the island's dramatic cliffs that disappear into turquoise waters; head to Rovinia Beach for its secluded charm and white pebble shores; and stop at Porto Timoni for a truly breathtaking view.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Allison DeAngelis,
STAT,
18 Feb. 2026
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However, sometimes the abnormal IgA (the antibody that clumps up and causes problems) does run in families.—
Brandi Jones,
Health,
15 Jan. 2026
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Embrace a design strategy that focuses on grouping plants in drifts or mass plantings.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Mar. 2026
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Instead, Zeisig treats the project like a beat tape, preferring static mats of sound and dynamically unyielding drifts over crescendoes and catharsis.—
Daniel Bromfield,
Pitchfork,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Mounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mounds. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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