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as in pile
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor
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as in hill
an area of high ground
a pitcher's mound
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Recent Examples of mound
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
26 June 2026
There were two outs and the White Sox — holding a 5-3 lead against the Houston Astros — had their then-24-year-old closer Bobby Jenks on the mound.
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Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
These low-growing, mounding plants work well as ground covers, edging plants, or in containers.
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Lauren David,
Southern Living,
4 June 2026
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Noun
Along the way, LePage fills the film with imaginative emotional landmarks from the Island of the Flakes to the Kind Heart Outlet and whimsical visual metaphors, including a wobbling mound of Jell-O that becomes an unlikely symbol of resilience.
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Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
26 June 2026
There were two outs and the White Sox — holding a 5-3 lead against the Houston Astros — had their then-24-year-old closer Bobby Jenks on the mound.
—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
Verb
Amid a wave of pitching injuries, Cabrera walked off the Wrigley Field mound with an athletic trainer Tuesday night, exiting his start against the Colorado Rockies in the fifth inning of a 5-2 loss to the worst team in the majors.
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Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
These low-growing, mounding plants work well as ground covers, edging plants, or in containers.
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Lauren David,
Southern Living,
4 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mound
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According to information presented in court, Fleming committed three armed robberies of banks in Denton between November 2022 and February 2023.
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The government is also working with private developers, banks and the real estate sector to accelerate temporary and permanent housing solutions.
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Many have camped out along the edge of the piles of crushed concrete and rebar, awaiting any word of their relatives.
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But Carron happily pointed to a pile of recycled asphalt that has a different plan.
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Kotagiri was once a hill station from the British era, and that’s why many of its older houses feature the same heavy stone masonry.
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The rolling hills and pastureland of Vernon County are home to the highest concentration of organic farms in the state.
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For the first time, disparate bank technology stacks around the world will connect through GSSP infrastructure that digitizes manual workflows.
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Anthropologie’s Summer Sale is pampering fashion insiders with 50-percent-off deals stacked on top of already on-sale buys, reflected in cart.
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Sometimes finding the right trees can be an adventure, hiking into forests and mountains to find the oldest trees, patriarchs that hold centuries of information.
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And in the agricultural fields, and in the mountain towns, and in the Sahara.
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Policymakers should treat it as a reminder that the country’s foundations are still cracking — and if the drift continues, the next rupture will be something darker.
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Fix it by anchoring on outcome metrics, production accuracy, drift detection time and business KPI lift, not release counts.
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“Mound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mound. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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