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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
Jeff Vandermeer, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
The small leaves grow on dense branches that hug the ground to form a low-spreading mound.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 14 May 2026
Kent mounded up soil the couple bought from GreatSoil to create some elevation.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
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Noun
The Apalachee people, who built large ceremonial mounds that still exist, flourished here from about 1000 AD to the early 16th century, until invasion by the Spanish.
—Jeff Vandermeer, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
The small leaves grow on dense branches that hug the ground to form a low-spreading mound.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Verb
Lobelia come in many colors and are the perfect companions for mounding petunias and geraniums.
—Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 14 May 2026
Kent mounded up soil the couple bought from GreatSoil to create some elevation.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mound
Noun
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Across California, billions of dollars sit in unclaimed property accounts, from uncashed checks and dormant bank accounts to insurance payments and other financial assets.—
Brad Hamilton,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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Villas have been constructed around the landscape to avoid any disruption to the area, and the hotel’s staff has created a seed bank to ensure that some of the rare local species in the forest garden and orchard are preserved.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
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Many of the ideas the series toyed with, from conspiracy theories and internet pile-ons to rapidly evolving conversations around gender and identity, have since migrated from the fringes into everyday discourse.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
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Don't add it to the compost pile; toss it in the trash.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
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The ranch saloon sits across from the open yard—and around the corner and up a hill of long yellow grass is the outdoor rodeo arena, home to lively summer rodeos every week in the summer season.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
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For a cooler-climate option, Sky Meadow Retreat in Vermont sits among the hills during peak fall foliage and pairs daily yoga and meditation with tai chi, art therapy, sound healing and forest hiking.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
15 June 2026
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Alphabet investors had bought a capital-light cash machine, and the plan stacks equity dilution on top of more than $100 billion of debt raised over the past year, including a sterling bond round in February.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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For a few hours, New York became a small town with generations stacked on top of each other connected by a team that finished the journey.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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Emergency crews searched Saturday night for a swimmer who went underwater near a popular rock face on a lake in the North Carolina mountains and never resurfaced.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
14 June 2026
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An Indigenous couple pay a visit to another makeshift cross, mist rises from a waterfall, and mountains rear up, first green, then brown, and finally glittering white.—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
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The book traces Vance’s path from religious drift and skepticism of faith during his younger years to his eventual embrace of Catholicism.—
Vivian Salama,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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That’s in addition to problems like data drift, bias in training data, black swan events, and other things that the panelists touched on in pondering the challenges of instituting these systems in a highly regulated industry.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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“Mound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mound. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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