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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
Montgomery says that your strawberry rows should be about 24 inches wide and mounded 6 inches high.
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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
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
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
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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The taco features a stratum of smoke and heat, with the octopus piled onto a fresh corn tortilla with purple onions pickled Yucatan-style with citrus.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Brooklyn got a little too handsy, the free throws piled up, and Miami’s 7-for-8 start at the line was the difference in a quarter where the Heat shot 48% and still carried a 34-28 lead.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Teddy bears and textbooks, camping gear stacked against her husband’s drum kit, a jumble of whisks and frying pans catching the morning sun.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Books can also be organized horizontally or stacked vertically.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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These areas mimic a natural desert oasis environment, where trees are clumped together and left to grow naturally, producing fruit and nourishing the local wildlife.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Feb. 2026
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The other layers of the cloud, where material is less densely clumped but temperatures are warmer, is where most of the methanimine seems to be forming.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Mounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mounded. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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