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If the language of the text message is ambiguous, lacks intent, or could be referring to any number of transactions, you would have a steep hill to climb.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

In 1941, the whole house was put on rollers, pushed up a steep hill and plopped onto a foundation of beach sand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The hill we live on, as we say in Connecticut, is “walk to town,” which means I can get to a grocery store and commuter rail no matter how much snow without using my car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The highlight of Rubio's visit is set to be his address from the Pnyx, a hill near the Acropolis that is the parliamentary assembly of ancient Athenian democracy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

I stood on the brake and held the sled back and we slithered down the hill.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Stryker armored combat vehicles rolled down the hills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The main residence spans 5,035 square feet and features four bedrooms and five bathrooms, along with a wraparound porch with unencumbered views of the surrounding Tennessee hills.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

“You’ll either be terrified and run for the hills or you’ll see the beauty in all of it,” Kelly shared on “The Drew Barrymore Show” in November 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

In the distance, the rocks glittered on the hills; it seemed as if a soft green cloth was stretched over them.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

They are usually hilled up pretty well after starting to grow well.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

There was little work for Paul to do in the village; but he kept their own garden in good trim,—the onion-bed clear of weeds, and the potatoes well hilled.

From Winning His Way by Charles Carleton Coffin

It was better to have possession of the imperial seven hilled city, than of Gethsemane and Calvary with all their holy souvenirs.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper

When the plants were about knee high they were "hilled up," as the Indian had done his corn, or the Englishman his cabbage, and considered "laid by."

From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by G. Melvin Herndon

The corn, as soon as shot out of the earth, is weeded: when it mounts up, and its stalks are an inch big, it is hilled, to secure it against the wind.

From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz

That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Prevailing industry practices often involve the concentrated application of fertilizers during the planting or hilling phases, particularly in Atlantic Canada.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023

He mentions that the Potawatomi word for “hill” is a verb: “Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.”

From New York Times ● May 27, 2020

On an afternoon in March, Loïc Gouzer, a specialist in contemporary art at Christie’s New York, attended a hilling session to survey several works that had been secured for an upcoming auction.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016

In hilling trees, pains should be taken not to leave deep holes, from which the earth was dug, close to the tree, for water collects in them.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey