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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
Rounds of roasted purple sweet potatoes arrive mounded with a mixture of salsa macha and butter, and liberally flecked with chives.
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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
Its natural form is loosely mounded and spreading, making a good candidate for erosion control.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2025
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
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
Its natural form is loosely mounded and spreading, making a good candidate for erosion control.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2025
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
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Parchment is piled high at its base.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Massive snow banks, often piled high in urban areas, make already-scarce parking even more limited.—
Jessica Mekles,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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This is not your typical Aladdin’s Cave vintage shop, where rails are stacked on top of each other and garments fill every corner.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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What Betta Fish Actually Need Betta fish are commonly displayed in small cups stacked next to and on top of each other, where their striking colors are contrasted against their fellow fish to the left and right.—
Sierra Leone Starks,
Parents,
10 Feb. 2026
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Venus, Mercury, and Saturn will be clumped together just above the west horizon, the publication said, before setting an hour after sunset.—
Joshua Bessex,
Sacbee.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Individually Quick Frozen, vegetables are flash-frozen in single layers rather than clumped together.—
Amber Love Bond,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Mounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mounded. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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