till
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OpenAI has delayed its own Wall Street debut till next year at the earliest, as Anthropic aims for November.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
"We were looking to freeze, but actually the advice was we don't need to freeze yet so we can probably wait till after the wedding," said Jones.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International and three other airports have extended closures till 18:00 local time on Monday after volcanic ash was detected in airspaces near them.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Waller’s comments support our view that the Fed will not hike rates at least till the midterms,” he said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
And then she’s back and leading us to a hiding place in the park where we’ll wait till night-time.
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
A fish and chip shop owner says he is installing self-service tills to protect staff from customers with "abrupt" questions about price rises.
From BBC ● May 13, 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
"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
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
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
So, instead of tilling to loosen soil or digging to add amendments, lay needed organic amendments on top where worms and rain can help them percolate down.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Some Indigenous farmers prefer even less intervention, eschewing cover crops and tilling in favor of a rich composting program and the traditional observance of lunar cycles to determine times of planting and harvesting.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
If fields are flooded, that can hamper productivity and slow down planting or ploughing and tilling.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
Daddy spends hours out here every night, planting, tilling, and talking.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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