1
as in piles
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
the ants made little hills of dirt
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2
as in mounds
an area of high ground
a town nestled in a valley surrounded by green hills
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as in inclines
an upward slope
I got stuck behind a truck going up a hill in a no-passing zone
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as in banks
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 hills
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
After nearly a decade away, though, Virginia reeled me back in, welcoming me home to a world with rolling hills, four distinct seasons, and a passion for music, history, and good old-fashioned comfort food.
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Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
27 June 2026
Visitors come for the unique rock formations, sandstone canyons, and rolling hills – all laid out across 13 miles of hiking and horseback riding trails.
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Jamie Siebrase,
Denver Post,
26 June 2026
The blaze burned an area of the hills in the Palisades that was covered with heavy vegetation.
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Chelsea Hylton,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Watermelons grow best in planting hills that are 4 to 6 feet apart to give each melon optimum space to blossom.
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Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
26 June 2026
There is also the vertical, which sees competitors go up and down a halfpipe performing tricks and flips at the top; and dirt courses, where athletes fly over large dirt hills while performing tricks.
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Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2026
The Federal Highway Administration is paying 80% of the construction costs to take the hills out of the deadly road, plus 80% of inspection costs, and giving money for design and the purchasing of right-of-way.
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Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
Dwayne Johnson and Catherine Laga'aia travel down under to attend a special event for their upcoming film Moana in Sydney, while Rhianna heads for the hills (Beverly HIlls, that is) for a stylish shopping trip.
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Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
25 June 2026
Noun
Faugères sits in the foothills of the Haut Languedoc, in the hills northwest of Béziers, its vineyards climbing to 400 meters and lying largely within the Haut-Languedoc Regional Natural Park.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
After nearly a decade away, though, Virginia reeled me back in, welcoming me home to a world with rolling hills, four distinct seasons, and a passion for music, history, and good old-fashioned comfort food.
—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
27 June 2026
Visitors come for the unique rock formations, sandstone canyons, and rolling hills – all laid out across 13 miles of hiking and horseback riding trails.
—
Jamie Siebrase,
Denver Post,
26 June 2026
The blaze burned an area of the hills in the Palisades that was covered with heavy vegetation.
—
Chelsea Hylton,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Watermelons grow best in planting hills that are 4 to 6 feet apart to give each melon optimum space to blossom.
—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
26 June 2026
There is also the vertical, which sees competitors go up and down a halfpipe performing tricks and flips at the top; and dirt courses, where athletes fly over large dirt hills while performing tricks.
—
Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2026
The Federal Highway Administration is paying 80% of the construction costs to take the hills out of the deadly road, plus 80% of inspection costs, and giving money for design and the purchasing of right-of-way.
—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
Dwayne Johnson and Catherine Laga'aia travel down under to attend a special event for their upcoming film Moana in Sydney, while Rhianna heads for the hills (Beverly HIlls, that is) for a stylish shopping trip.
—
Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hills
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What was left of other buildings were buried under piles of their own debris.
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Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
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At the time, certain teams wore BLM patches and stenciled the BLM logo onto the pitcher’s mounds.
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Regular mowing can also disrupt ant mounds.
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Combat travel stiffness with simple SITS exercises (shoulder shrugs, inclines, twists, steps) and consider chiropractic care before and after your trip for spinal alignment.
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According to the project team, Pemba walked independently on sections of terrain with inclines of less than 30 degrees.
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Four minute into the game, Pop Isaacs banks a 3-pointer to put the Aggies ahead 8-4.
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The group banks its seventh champ total.
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Most companies in the space are selling expensive diagnostics and supplement stacks to wealthy early adopters.
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Only select Archives employees are permitted to go into those stacks; one staffer suggested to me that this is because anyone can disappear in there, sucked down rabbit holes, if there are no guardrails.
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Respecting Nature Nature is key to Japan’s traditional Shinto religion, in which mountains, trees, stone and flowers are capable of having spirits.
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Marked by towering mountains, spectacular valleys and glacial blue lakes in every direction, the towns of Banff and Lake Louise have attracted travelers for decades.
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The route includes some short ascents and descents and takes place on a variety of paths, including pavement, loose gravel, and forest trails.
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Videos of climbers waiting in long queues in an area known as the death zone – where the air is too thin to breathe unaided for long – on their way to the summit have once again made headlines, alongside record-breaking ascents from both Nepali and foreign climbers.
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Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
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However, sometimes the abnormal IgA (the antibody that clumps up and causes problems) does run in families.
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“Hills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hills. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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