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as in stacked
to lay or throw on top of one another
mounding slices of cheese on top of her sandwich meat
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Recent Examples of mounded
One stretch, called Stuyvesant Cove Park, comprises only a floodable esplanade with plantings mounded up to the top of an eight-foot-high barrier wall that rises from street level and runs along an elevated section of FDR Drive.
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James S. Russell, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
The cheese, though, is white Prairie Breeze, shaved fine and mounded like a snowdrift atop the bowl.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
Montgomery says that your strawberry rows should be about 24 inches wide and mounded 6 inches high.
—Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026
Rounds of roasted purple sweet potatoes arrive mounded with a mixture of salsa macha and butter, and liberally flecked with chives.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Fresh thyme and roasted garlic butter make for a bright-yet-rich broth, always mounded with Dungeness claws and hefty prawns.
—Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Tahini sauce is mounded with honeyed kumquats.
—Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 12 Jan. 2026
Fill each pepper half with dip until slightly mounded.
—Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
Excavating wetlands, as various studies have suggested, would yield soil that could be mounded into sound-blocking berms, as at Brooklyn Bridge Park; lookouts, as on Governors Island; and undulating grasslands like those at Freshkills.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
James S. Russell, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
The cheese, though, is white Prairie Breeze, shaved fine and mounded like a snowdrift atop the bowl.
—Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026
Montgomery says that your strawberry rows should be about 24 inches wide and mounded 6 inches high.
—Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026
Rounds of roasted purple sweet potatoes arrive mounded with a mixture of salsa macha and butter, and liberally flecked with chives.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Fresh thyme and roasted garlic butter make for a bright-yet-rich broth, always mounded with Dungeness claws and hefty prawns.
—Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Tahini sauce is mounded with honeyed kumquats.
—Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 12 Jan. 2026
Fill each pepper half with dip until slightly mounded.
—Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
Excavating wetlands, as various studies have suggested, would yield soil that could be mounded into sound-blocking berms, as at Brooklyn Bridge Park; lookouts, as on Governors Island; and undulating grasslands like those at Freshkills.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mounded
Verb
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Meanwhile, Trump has been clear that whoever landed the nomination would have to be more dovish than Powell, and has piled praise on Warsh.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Garbage piled up on sidewalks as private sanitation workers refused to cross picket lines.—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The musical lineup this year is stacked!—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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In the video, a voice is heard talking about workers’ pay while a hand reaches out and starts to burn paper products stacked on a pallet, as other small fires are already burning in the background.—
Joseph Serna,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Continue stirring and splashing in water, aiming for where the flour has not yet clumped and shaking the bowl (or scraping down the sides) as needed to incorporate all the flour, until the mixture forms small, irregularly sized clumps, about rice- or pea-sized.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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When wet, faux fur can quickly become matted or clumped, which can damage its texture.—
Katelyn Squiers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Mounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mounded. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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