mound
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To this point, Roberts said, Ohtani has experienced the irritation only on the mound, not at bat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 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
He punched the air as he walked off the mound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The Neolithic burial mound Arthur's Stone is on the hill above the village.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Omakayas ran at him without a word and threw herself on him, buried him face first in a mound of snow directly beside the path.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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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
This week's heatwave has left "horrific" mounds of rubbish at some of Wales' most popular beaches, while traffic was brought to a standstill at beauty spots.
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
The rising sun was quickly burning off the fog, and if Clare squinted his one good eye, the mounds of trash almost looked like the rolling hills of a multicolored countryside.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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
As we passed the groaning trestle tables of food, I saw Sul Ross head for the trees with two mounded plates of cake.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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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
Pigeon Point has bright green foliage, a nice mounding growth and creamy flowers that bloom summer through winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022
They gathered the silver to them, mounding it around, piling it high.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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