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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
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.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mounded
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So only one overwhelmed person at a time was allowed to weep when daily frustrations piled up, like barely being able to keep up with a busy lunch crowd or when the aluminum on the bottom of the pan burned and ruined the custard, forcing them to throw it away and waste dozens of eggs.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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Has been piled up like this for years.—
Jim Radcliffe,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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The telescope works with a mobile app to align and track celestial objects, through which imagery can be viewed as exposures are stacked in real-time.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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Starship Version 2 is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, towering nearly 400 feet (121 meters) above the ground when stacked.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Time for some more electrolytes, but it’s clumped in the tube!—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
19 Sep. 2025
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The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Mounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mounded. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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