till
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As a teen, he divided his time between school and driving oxen to till the land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It gives people that feeling of this is how democracy works,” said Dominas, 63, who was working the till at a shop off the main drag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
"Most of those still trading ask customers to pay in cash whenever they can, so less money goes through the till."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
You could yank on that rope from now till New Year’s and not get a tinkle.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
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
A tractor tills farmland in Cantua Creek, near the site where a massive solar and battery project is planned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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
While launching into his 2022 dembow-trap hit, “Titi Me Preguntó,” Bad Bunny walked the cameras through the makeshift sugar cane field, which was tilled by dancers dressed as jíbaros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 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
We went to sleep with a large rectangle of newly tilled, well-balanced soil in the courtyard where we live.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
In Middle Tennessee, tilling dirt was her role in fighting the Germans and Japanese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The bears also have a special skill — tilling soil with their claws.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 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
He could feel the rumble of the craft’s engines tilling the air but couldn’t make out the silver skin, the sweeping ribs, the finned tail.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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