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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According to archaeologists, these ancient farmers piled up stones and soil to form a body, pincers, and a curved tail with a stinger.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Oct. 2025 -
It is piled like a crunchy cloud atop fresh Cretan mizithra cheese and a mix of sheep and goat graviera, a hard yellow cheese from the Peloponnese, and drizzled with local honey syrup.—
Katherine Whittaker,
Saveur,
9 Oct. 2025
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Excavating wetlands, as various studies have suggested, would yield soil that could be mounded into sound-blocking berms, as at Brooklyn Bridge Park; lookouts, as on Governors Island; and undulating grasslands like those at Freshkills.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
9 Sep. 2025
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It was celebrated as much for D’Angelo’s ever-inventive musicality and arrangements — copious guitars, and vocal tracks stacked to the heavens — as well as his politically trenchant lyrics.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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The current iteration of the vehicle, known as Version 2, stands about 403 feet (123 meters) tall fully stacked.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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That led to a counterattack and a fluky goal when Matvei Gridin banked a centring pass off Noah Philp and by Skinner, getting the Flames on the board.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Once confiscated, the plants spend the rest of their lives at the botanical garden, where their seeds can be banked for future conservation projects.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Hilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hilled. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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