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mound

[mound] / maʊnd /


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For Sunday’s doubleheader, right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto will take the mound in the first game.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

After a mound visit, he stayed in to face Muncy.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

He planned to play catch and throw off the mound in the coming days, and the team would monitor his response before finalizing pitching plans.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

A dirty grey mound is all that remains of the salt mountains that once filled the building, now a weathered steel skeleton.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Like a huge toad, the mound squatted above him.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The show starts with an 11-minute video, which includes aerial views of the round “tumuli” mounds that shielded Etruscan tombs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

He said it could be "demoralising" for the team when they were faced with mounds of rubbish but that most people did take their litter home with them.

From BBC May 29, 2026

Over weeks, a thick crust of salt forms, which the workers break and stack into mounds.

From Barron's May 10, 2026

Despite mounds of evidence to the contrary, I just can’t bring myself to believe they have all the ingredients to become just the third franchise in baseball history to three-peat.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 22, 2026

At the indoor spice market, the merchants arranged open crates with colored mounds of red saffron threads, yellow turmeric, purple sumac, blue salt, black pepper, brown sugar, and green dried sage.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

These kings commanded large armies, drawing legitimacy from their military prowess and creating mounded tombs that required vast resources and labor.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

At both palace and castle, the flowers continued to pile up, bouquets sometimes mounded a couple of feet high.

From Washington Post Sep. 11, 2022

Treading through seaweed mounded in pools, we slithered and groped, that we might retain our footing; and on occasions, we fell, Dr. Trefusis’s hands bleeding from the roughness of rock and incision of barnacles.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

Both heathers have a mounding habit and grow 2-by-2 feet.

From Seattle Times Dec. 31, 2022

Fill the shell with the fruit filling, mounding the fruit in the center of the pie.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2017

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

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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