mound
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The Neolithic burial mound Arthur's Stone is on the hill above the village.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026
Hours later, interim President Delcy Rodríquez announced another 11-year-old boy had been rescued, and posted a video of him on X, being carried down a huge mound of wreckage on a stretcher.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
On Instagram, Gillette posted a picture of its stadium logo covered in what looks like a mound of shaving foam with the caption, “At least we got to choose how we cover it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026
Amparo del Giudice dug with her bare hands at a huge mound of concrete in search of her son, trapped under rubble after Venezuela's strongest earthquake since 1900.
From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026
A termite mound rose not far from where she was sitting.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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