as in piled
to form into a pile or ridge of earth
hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze
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Traders piled into Broadcom stock, betting on a huge guide that didn’t materialize.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
4 June 2026 -
Cars and trucks piled into the roundabout, horns blaring.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Kent mounded up soil the couple bought from GreatSoil to create some elevation.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2026
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One stretch, called Stuyvesant Cove Park, comprises only a floodable esplanade with plantings mounded up to the top of an eight-foot-high barrier wall that rises from street level and runs along an elevated section of FDR Drive.—
James S. Russell,
Bloomberg,
13 Mar. 2026
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Make sure your shoulders and elbows are stacked over your wrists.—
Jenessa Connor,
Health,
5 June 2026
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The eight segments will join two segments delivered in April at KSC ready to be stacked to form the twin solid rocket boosters atop the mobile launcher 1 as the SLS rocket begins to take shape this summer.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 June 2026
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The sperm was banked after Epstein's conviction, which raises murky ethics issues in the fertility industry.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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That drew Dobeš’ attention away from the traffic in the crease — and Miller, with plenty of space between himself and Danault, banked the puck off Staal’s skate back toward the Canadiens’ net.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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“Hilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hilled. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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