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till

[til] / tɪl /




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It also comes as OpenAI and rival Anthropic are both racing towards becoming public companies over the next several months, though OpenAI might not hold its IPO till sometime in 2027, according to reports.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

So I started putting down ideas, and I realized: Should I reveal that it’s about an apartment right off the bat, or should I wait till the last line of the chorus?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

While people can simply come up to the till and ask to use the funds, they've also come up with a more discreet method.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

‘If you get caught in a snowstorm,’ Renn had said, ‘you dig yourself a snow cave and wait till it stops.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

He added the retailer was increasingly using automation and other technology, such as self-scanning lockers for customers to return items instead of having staff on tills.

From BBC May 25, 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

I am spending them like enchanted gold, doomed to turn back into dried leaves in tills all over town.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

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

From Salon May 6, 2023

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

If she had died, if Odenigbo and Baby and Ugwu had died, the bunker would still smell like a freshly tilled farm and the sun would still rise and the crickets would still hop around.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

Q: In The Blue Plate, you visited a Colorado farm where the farmers have eliminated things like mechanically tilling the soil or leaving land fallow, both of which degrade soil.

From Salon Sep. 23, 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

We coordinated with the Secret Service to make sure our tilling wouldn’t disrupt any of the sensors or sight lines they needed to protect the grounds.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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