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hilling

verb

present participle of hill

as in piling

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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Recent Examples of hilling When the stems reach about 6 to 8 inches tall, start hilling by placing new soil around the stems. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 13 Apr. 2026 This process is called hilling and creates an area of loose soil where tubers easily form while being shaded from the sun. — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2025

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Holiday hosting comes with plenty of perks, but the extra cleanup isn’t one of them — especially when snacks, spills, and stray crumbs start piling up.

— Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2026
The possibilities of tall black boots and a midiskirt are endless, especially now that gray skies are becoming more frequent, fallen leaves are piling up on the ground, and the number on the thermometer keeps dropping.

— María Munsuri, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2026

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The humanoid is built to help warehouse and manufacturing employees with repetitive tasks like lifting boxes, stacking totes and moving items from other mobile robots onto conveyor belts.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
Owners who skip this question tend to be the ones who end up stacking a second and third advance to cover the first.

— Elliot Ashkenazie, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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Pruning ‘Kaleidoscope’ Abelia ‘Kaleidoscope’ Abelia naturally develops a low mounding crown that requires little pruning to maintain.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2026
When in bloom, the compact, mounding plants resemble a cushion covered in small double flowers in white, yellow, lavender, pink, purple, red, orange, bronze or rust.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of mounding

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Micelles that form in the liquid dope prevent the messy, disordered proteins from clumping and getting tangled.

— Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026
Proteins and blood cells Proteins and DNA can gather on plastic surfaces, and lysozyme, a common test protein, also began clumping into aggregates there.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026

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