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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3
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
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
There are a surprisingly high number of weak ski resort courses, and many better golf operations tend to be at smaller market ski hills, so my focus is on the best golf courses at ski resorts, regardless of the size of the ski operations.
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Larry Olmsted,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
When rolling up Vin Scully Avenue, a white smoke hung like a curtain behind the small hills on the other side of outfield walls, obscuring the normally scenic view of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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Liana Handler,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
In true old-school thumper fashion, the 250 Dual looks perfectly happy climbing hills, crossing rivers, and tackling technical trails.
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Utkarsh Sood
june 20,
New Atlas,
20 June 2026
From his sprawling property in the rolling hills of northwest Georgia, Greg Baer built a self-help organization with a deeply human mission.
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Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
20 June 2026
What to do nearby San Francisco is a city of hills and vistas and The Huntington’s location near the top of Nob Hill is prime.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 June 2026
Tap the team there for everything from aesthetics to dentistry, while taking regular dips in the enormous indoor pool or guided hikes through the hills of the Black Forest.
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Todd Plummer,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
While major transportation corridors carved their way through California over the centuries, the green hills surrounding Ojai were left largely untouched—allowing the valley to become one of the most serene travel destinations in the Central Coast region.
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Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
14 June 2026
Noun
The Colorado Department of Transportation has been working with the Bureau of Fire Prevention and Control to identify trouble spots along roadways, steep hills and other areas.
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Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
There are a surprisingly high number of weak ski resort courses, and many better golf operations tend to be at smaller market ski hills, so my focus is on the best golf courses at ski resorts, regardless of the size of the ski operations.
—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
When rolling up Vin Scully Avenue, a white smoke hung like a curtain behind the small hills on the other side of outfield walls, obscuring the normally scenic view of the San Gabriel Mountains.
—
Liana Handler,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
In true old-school thumper fashion, the 250 Dual looks perfectly happy climbing hills, crossing rivers, and tackling technical trails.
—
Utkarsh Sood
june 20,
New Atlas,
20 June 2026
From his sprawling property in the rolling hills of northwest Georgia, Greg Baer built a self-help organization with a deeply human mission.
—
Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
20 June 2026
What to do nearby San Francisco is a city of hills and vistas and The Huntington’s location near the top of Nob Hill is prime.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 June 2026
Tap the team there for everything from aesthetics to dentistry, while taking regular dips in the enormous indoor pool or guided hikes through the hills of the Black Forest.
—
Todd Plummer,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
While major transportation corridors carved their way through California over the centuries, the green hills surrounding Ojai were left largely untouched—allowing the valley to become one of the most serene travel destinations in the Central Coast region.
—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
14 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hills
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Burnham’s victory piles pressure on Starmer to quit Burnham will head to London to be sworn in as a lawmaker as soon as Monday.
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This post was originally published on June 18 Bitcoin has struggled this year as the artificial intelligence investment boom piles pressure on crypto (even as BlackRock issues a massive $9 trillion prediction).
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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 26 Jun. 2026.
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