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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The cumulative net losses to public biotech companies’ bottom lines piled up to more than $40 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2004.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025 -
Brigitte Macron, Stella McCartney, David Beckham, Diego Della Valle, Remo Ruffini, a squad of top LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton executives and the extended Arnault family piled into Le Pavillon Ledoyen for the ceremony on Wednesday night during Paris Fashion Week.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
2 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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The telescope works with a mobile app to align and track celestial objects, through which imagery can be viewed as exposures are stacked in real-time.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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Starship Version 2 is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, towering nearly 400 feet (121 meters) above the ground when stacked.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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While all of the Isak fee will be banked in 2025-26 accounts, the money paid for Woltemade and Wissa is amortised equally over the duration of their respective contracts.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 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 7 Oct. 2025.
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