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till

[til] / tɪl /




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Their mentality: “Let me ‘optionality’ all of this till the very last minute,” said Ana Homayoun, academic adviser and author.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"China Airlines and EVA received a notice from the Pakistan authorities that they will lift the ban, but only temporarily... till the end of the winter," Chen said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Though the congress went ahead — with many top oil executives attending virtually — the summit and investment conference were shelved till next year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It marks the first time in more than 30 years that a hurricane did not form till October.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

“If we wait till then to find out that our closets are lacking something essential, it’ll be too late to do anything about it, and that would be dumb.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

A balcony from which to view the mayhem at the tills below?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Judge continued to fundraise, often using collection tins, some of which still sit by tills in businesses around Teesside.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 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

His family tills 3,400 acres of soybeans, corn and other crops.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

The dull green antique coppers spilled from out the tills of their eyesockets onto the stained and rotted coffin floors.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

As more land at home has been tilled to grow corn for ethanol, commodity prices have gone up worldwide.

From Salon ● May 6, 2023

Like my mountain, the tilled land eroded and grew stones, not crops, and the farms were abandoned.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

In Middle Tennessee, tilling dirt was her role in fighting the Germans and Japanese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Farmers overwhelmingly rely on Roundup, which was introduced 50 years ago as a more efficient way to control weeds and reduce tilling and soil erosion.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

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

Daddy spends hours out here every night, planting, tilling, and talking.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas


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