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“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

"Can't play digital games till you fix it. Yet I can put my disc in and play. The all digital future looks great," read one comment on X, external.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

“NOOOO tell her to wait till Thursday!!!!!” one person wrote on Instagram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

“It’s just for a bit longer, Lexie. I promise. Just till I can afford to hire someone.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

A generation grew up with its "That's Asda Price" TV commercial, first featured in an advert for the supermarket in 1977, showing shoppers tapping their back pockets signalling they'd saved money at the tills.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 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 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

He reminds me of the poor white sharecroppers who tilled Mr. Thompson’s land.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

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

Deep tilling of the soil isn't a good idea unless you are facing the kind of ground we have here in the Gardens of Glenwood.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan