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
There’s just a single SD card slot, so there’s no option for redundant backup storage, but the FP2 does come with 70GB of storage built-in that can be used when your memory card unexpectedly fills up. — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2026 Shapira fills a plate with a crab cake, two chicken tenders, and a salad, lamenting the fattiness of American food. — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 21 Oct. 2026 Stubbs’s appointment fills one of two open seats on the Trust. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 But unlike a regular iPhone, the viewfinder fills the entire screen; there are no black bars on either side, and the controls are laid over the viewfinder itself. — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026 When Trust Fills The Gap Documentation Leaves When a plan does not answer the questions a client actually has, trust fills the space instead. — Deric Ned, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 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 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
Noun
Thomas shocks Vision back to life, but this somehow alerts Butcherbird; Vision’s mindscape fills with oppressive red lighting, ominously circling birds, and TVs crackling with static. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fills
Verb
  • The live feed loads much faster in the Birdbuddy app thanks to a new instant wake-up feature.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Pocket-sized Hong Kong packs more of a punch than its 430-square-mile size might suggest.
    — Lee Cobaj, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Mevis packs about 250 pounds on his 6-foot frame and Grupe stands 5-foot-7 and weighs nearly 100 pounds less, a difference that came into play Sunday when the Rams lost 18-16 to the Cardinals, who were 12 1/2-point underdogs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Securing public money for them raises issues over church-state separation but fulfills a longstanding goal for Christian conservatives, who lobbied for this funding.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Ashley Gearhardt, who studies and treats food addiction at the University of Michigan, points out that social media fulfills our base need for socialization in the same way that ultraprocessed products fulfill our need for food.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • That could open the door to treatments for enamel erosion, products for sensitive teeth and materials that help fillings and other dental restorations last longer.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Treatments for erosion and sensitivity could expand The researchers see a range of possible uses, including treatments for enamel erosion, products for sensitive teeth and materials that help fillings and other dental restorations last longer.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 20 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, Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Emily Hilliard said that every committee member satisfies the FDA’s ethics requirements.
    — Amy Maxmen, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
  • 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
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 26 Oct. 2026.

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