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Still, the global temperature spike driven by El Niño won’t peak till next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"It rained all night, but we stayed put till the choppers came for us," he added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

We’re in a country that really puts a premium on swagger, on faking it till you make it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

“We were young and crazy. We waited till the players came out and kind of talked to them,” said David, who says he once walked with Wilt Chamberlain to his car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Then every night after dinner I’d go and lie down in the orchard till I got called to come in.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

John Lewis said the decision to close its in-store bureaux de change was due to falling demand and that it would move gift-wrapping services from a specialised area to its tills.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

"People say, 'Oh, it'll get tilled back into the soil,' but that doesn't account for the resources wasted in the process — pesticides, labor, energy — all of it has environmental costs."

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

They turned up around Halloween, as a roaring storm gripped the wetlands of Northern Ireland and tilled its ground: human bones, sticking up from the tea-colored water in Bellaghy bog, halfway between Derry and Belfast.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

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

She invited James over to hang out, and as they walked up her stairwell, her apartment tilled with skateboard thunder and Matthew chanting Flush lyrics.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

Both tilling and solarization negatively affect soil structure and beneficial microorganisms, while landscape fabric, or “weed cloth,” is ineffective and breaks down, leaving plastic fragments in the soil.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

If fields are flooded, that can hamper productivity and slow down planting or ploughing and tilling.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023

“It’s what we call the guys workin’ their butts off in the Gardens— tilling, weeding, planting and such.”

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner