: a little mound or ridge of earth pushed up by a mole
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Everyone made a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025 Every other mountain in the Alaska Range looked like the proverbial molehill compared to the 20,000-foot behemoth.—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025 The attacks on Ramirez make a mountain out of a molehill, based on a questionable translation of her Spanish words.—Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025 There is little question that the pandemic made a horological mountain out of what was perhaps only going to be a molehill.—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for molehill
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