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And after playing catch three more days this week, Ohtani and the Dodgers determined he was ready to throw off the mound again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

But Major League Baseball today isn’t defined by crafty wordsmiths on the mound with their own styles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Called up from triple-A Syracuse a day earlier, the 29-year-old Dominican left-hander took the mound to start the bottom of the sixth inning and faced Guardians pinch-hitter Ángel Martínez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Skubal skipped backward off the mound and buried his fist in the pocket of his glove in celebration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

He stopped wiggling, and another mound rose up.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

“Most district schools would not have mounds this high,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

But in Guryong Village, set among mounds of accumulated refuse, access to air conditioning -- or even a reliable supply of electricity -- is far from guaranteed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Thanks to four years as vice president and two presidential bids, her name identification is universal, and she has demonstrated the ability to raise mounds of money.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Large chunks of cracked sidewalk form mounds, one after another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

To reshape his garden into mounds; to submit to Tata Ndu on the subject of river baptism; to listen at all to Tata Ndu or even the rantings of Mama Tataba.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The hotel room had a sour, rancid smell, and clothes lay mounded in a corner.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024

In addition to identifying forts similar to the walled fortresses Poidebard found, the team identified forts with interior architecture features and ones built around a mounded citadel.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023

In the distance, a Boswell crew with earth-movers was building a levee, a rising barrier of mounded dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Goguryeo’s elites also learned from the Chinese the art of adorning their large, mounded tombs with colorful murals depicting the lives of royals surrounded by dancers, servants, and enslaved people.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

She recognized the tall spikes of yarrow and its dense clustered blossoms; around them twined the flopping stems of coreopsis, above a carved base of that plant’s mounded dark and feathery leaves.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

The solution was mounding the road a bit in the center and building sloping stone-lined ditches on both sides of the avenue to carry the runoff away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

Taste and season with salt and pepper, then transfer to a platter, mounding it to one side.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

But radar satellites that measure ocean height can also find them, by looking for subtle signs of seawater mounding above a hidden seamount, tugged by its gravity.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2023

A mounding shrub with a modest suckering habit, the plant produces deliciously fragrant pink or white blooms in summer against pristine foliage, followed by a showy crop of bright red hips in fall.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

They gathered the silver to them, mounding it around, piling it high.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi