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Recent Examples of till
Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
The disease presents growing risks not just for agricultural workers accustomed to tilling soil but also for those who move to new suburban developments or spend the weekend on a golf trip in a region where the fungus is present.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Farmlands to wetlands George Tibbitts mostly farms rice, but his son Carson was tilling a safflower field on one mid-August morning.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The fragrance of dry grass mingled in the air with the dust kicked up by a tractor tilling in the distance.
—Elena Valeriote, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Verb
The rest was tilled into the ground.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
The disease presents growing risks not just for agricultural workers accustomed to tilling soil but also for those who move to new suburban developments or spend the weekend on a golf trip in a region where the fungus is present.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Farmlands to wetlands George Tibbitts mostly farms rice, but his son Carson was tilling a safflower field on one mid-August morning.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The fragrance of dry grass mingled in the air with the dust kicked up by a tractor tilling in the distance.
—Elena Valeriote, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for till
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Antoine’s advancements in the propagation of pecan trees that produced high-quality pecans of reproducible form, then, resulted in these nuts being cultivated as a cash crop that could be mass produced.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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Deep Attention to Quality Results From complex operations to critical assignments, military training cultivates a deep attention to quality results.—
Heather V. MacArthur,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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In my view, many of those landowners do not want to continue farming.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Jan. 2026
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Ens was regularly farming outside, milking cows by hand, plowing fields and helping her family butcher animals.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
22 Jan. 2026
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Be gentle, and harvest with a slight twist, or snip them off.—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
13 Jan. 2026
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In Europe, Norway’s Over Easy Solar and Germany’s Next2Sun and SOLYCO Solar provide a variety of vertical solar panels that harvest morning, evening and winter light.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
13 Jan. 2026
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Each vine is planted at the bottom of its own crater and protected by a curved wall of lava stones.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson planted pecans at their plantations, with Washington being known to carry them around in his pockets as a snack.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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What makes this especially unique is that most animal calls tend to vary depending on mood or environment.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The organization tends to do well on independent quality assessments.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Till.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/till. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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