fills 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of fill
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fills

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noun

plural of fill
as in fillings
soft material that is used to fill the hollow parts of something we ripped the tag off years ago, so we have no idea what the fill in that pillow is

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Recent Examples of fills
Verb
Local artwork fills the walls of each room and building, while large-scale sculptures and art installations are rotated seasonally across the property. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 The printer automatically fills the tank and replenishes it as material is consumed during printing. — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026 If approval thresholds aren’t explicitly defined, or if payment authorization limits aren’t documented, AI fills those gaps with pattern matching. — John Gronen, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Mariachi music fills the room as violins, trumpets, the guitarrón, and a stringed instrument called the vihuela launch into an upbeat melody. — Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 For nearly two decades, Pena and his wife have run a Dominican restaurant in Allentown, where the aroma of crispy pastelillos and savory rice fills the dining room. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 Halfway through, Brill pulls out a machine that fills the stage with foam, submerging the actors in a cumulus of bubbles. — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Old furniture fills the rooms, giving the place the domestic, lived-in feel of a family home that has grown with its occupants. — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026 Strong eerily fills the role Eisenberg started (the latter actor refused Sorkin’s offer to return). — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
But the drama of those big drum fills and everything was just something that that room gave us. — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 Researchers compared data on two groups each with more than 500 people who were prescribed three fills of semaglutide or tirzepatide over six months. — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 The Type of Pillow Matters Some fills are much easier to revive than others. — Colleen Sullivan, Martha Stewart, 22 Aug. 2026 Traders are best served by treating virtual fills as optimistic and expecting live executions to be less forgiving. — Michael Martin, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Its three-in-one design is a huge win for people like adjustable pillows but don't want to store leftover fills or inserts. — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026 Pantry staples, paper goods and freezer fills are moving in bigger packages as families try to lock in a lower per-unit cost. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2026 There are soaring layers of harmony vocals, a glistening 12-string-guitar part, driving drum fills that speed the song forward. — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026 Another relatively new replacement, Ethan Baechtold (in the band since 2023), offered the brooding low end on bass to round Wednesday's sound, while Alan Miller delivered heavy fills and heart-racing builds on drums. — Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fills
Verb
  • These improvements are intended to help military forces transport larger loads more efficiently and support operational demands across a range of environments.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
  • When your site loads quickly, visitors may stay longer, browse more and be more likely to convert.
    — Anthony Savino, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The tabletop version packs two full-range drivers into the display housing, paired with a down-firing woofer and two force-cancelling passive radiators in its domed base.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Tucked into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Taos rises from 9,207 to 12,163 feet and packs more than 1,200 acres of terrain into a surprisingly distinctive ski experience, from groomed runs to steep chutes and bowls.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Chair44 discovery, on the other hand, fulfills a decades-long quest to find a strong example.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026
  • My heart is not in it, my kids are my life, my work supports us and fulfills me, along with hobbies.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Services include dental exams, cleanings, fillings, extractions and root canals, along with hearing evaluations and free hearing aids.
    — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In August, human remains, including a jawbone with teeth and dental fillings and rib bones, were discovered at Boulder Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Then there’s the Tesseract, which takes the scooter formula and crams it with an almost unreasonable amount of technology.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Neutron stars are considered so extreme because the process that creates them crams between one and two times the mass of the sun down into a sphere with a width of around 12 miles (20 kilometers).
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Essentially, earbuds—or anything else that plugs up your ear canal for long periods of time—could lead to a greater buildup of wax if your body isn’t able to get rid of it.
    — Julia Landwehr, HEALTH, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Wilson plugs a creative gap in the Leeds line-up off that inside-right channel.
    — Aston Villa, New York Times, 13 July 2026
Verb
  • In an email, HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard wrote that every committee member satisfies the FDA’s ethics requirements.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
  • As that churn suggests, none of these stories satisfies him, none proves sufficient to sustain a self.
    — Garth Greenwell, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Biochar could reportedly serve as a renewable substitute for standard conductive fillers.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Colorado’s three veteran fillers brought in to prop up the rotation largely tanked.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Fills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fills. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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