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It is hard to make much of Richard Long’s “Battery Park,” a photograph of a rectangular trench and a sod-covered mound that the artist constructed in Lower Manhattan in 1969.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Should they put their belief in the 11th-year pitcher who likely would be the odd man out in the postseason if Shohei Ohtani still were available to deal on the mound?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

It was fitting that Skubal, the Dodgers’ big trade-deadline acquisition, was on the mound for the clincher.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

It was just an open space without formal bases or a pitcher’s mound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Soon they had a large mound of mussels waiting beside a crackling fire.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

India’s dysfunctional urbanization provides an endless stream of videos: mounds of rotting garbage, trains overflowing with commuters, half-drowned school buses on flooded roads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

At a gleaming new factory in China's central hinterland, masked workers in white uniform season and sift through mounds of latiao, a longtime popular snack that has found hungry fans overseas.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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

I gave them the marshmallow mounds, which had melted in the Jericho heat.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

In the past, they had mounded earth on top of existing graves to create new burial sites, or narrowed existing paths to create more cremation spots.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 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

Her dirty wrapper was not knotted properly, and one end trailed in the dirt as she walked, carrying a tray mounded with bits of fried beef.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Corcoran is protected to the south by a long, mounding levee that stands 188 feet tall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 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