till
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“Problem is most investors are thinking till end November or December, which is their year-end, rather than from a long term basis,” the global economist says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
“It’s four years till the next World Cup now, so I think I need to maybe cut it soon and grow it all out again,” he explained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"I'm absolutely exhausted," Stephanie, who didn't want to share her last name, told AFP, adding the danger of the situation "didn't quite hit me till now".
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
For me, this is all from ’76 till ’86 roughly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
‘I was out like a light till Mila’s snoring woke me this morning.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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A balcony from which to view the mayhem at the tills below?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Captain Andy Robertson once worked on the tills at Marks & Spencer on Sauchiehall Street, while Lawrence Shankland was employed in a Hillington plumbing factory before turning professional.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Though recently retired, he refuses to give up his peshmerga uniform as he tills his small plot of land.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
She starves herself for her cause, crosses oceans and tills land to create the utopia that she believes is possible.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
A poor farmer who tills the nuns’ field, his three hollow-eyed children, and a guest, a traveling scholar, round out the company.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In Scandinavia and parts of Northern Europe, these mobile cattle herders took just a few centuries to largely replace the sedentary farmers who had tilled the soil with stone tools for millennia.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2024
On a recent Sunday, children rode bicycles on new dirt paths, women tilled soil for gardens and men pulled tarps onto shelters.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
Lark said prairies and grasslands are being converted to acres of corn that have to be tilled and have their soil disrupted on an annual basis.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023
Jeanne’s speech was broad and flat like the fields her people tilled.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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In Middle Tennessee, tilling dirt was her role in fighting the Germans and Japanese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Having to avoid pesticides and herbicides often makes organic farms more reliant on tilling soil to keep crops weed-free, for example, so many must be more proactive about soil health.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2025
If fields are flooded, that can hamper productivity and slow down planting or ploughing and tilling.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
In the meantime, volunteers with Friends of the Ballona Wetlands are tilling the soil and preparing to put in scores of new trees and plants to help with the environmental restoration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Sometimes in the middle of sowing or reaping or tilling, or the innumerable tasks the land demanded, he would stop and straighten up, breathing hard and trembling.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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