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to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on
farmers tilling the soil from sunup to sunset
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Recent Examples of tilled
When spring comes, the cover crop can be tilled back into the soil to add nutrients.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
These tools – still carrying the soil from which they were tilled – represent the work of the immigrant farmworkers of all backgrounds who helped build California’s agriculture industry, which continues to feed the nation today.
—Sam Vong, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
The wheat fields themselves told their own story—deep brown and newly tilled in autumn, then green in spring, golden in summer.
—Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2025
The rest was tilled into the ground.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Château de Selle is located inland from the Mediterranean Sea, on limestone hillsides, planted in arid limestone soil––the earth is actually mechanically tilled to crush the rocks; yields from the 345-acre organic (since 2022) estate are low.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
These tools – still carrying the soil from which they were tilled – represent the work of the immigrant farmworkers of all backgrounds who helped build California’s agriculture industry, which continues to feed the nation today.
—Sam Vong, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
The wheat fields themselves told their own story—deep brown and newly tilled in autumn, then green in spring, golden in summer.
—Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2025
The rest was tilled into the ground.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Château de Selle is located inland from the Mediterranean Sea, on limestone hillsides, planted in arid limestone soil––the earth is actually mechanically tilled to crush the rocks; yields from the 345-acre organic (since 2022) estate are low.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tilled
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The podcast is recorded live every week at the Comedy Mothership on Sixth Street in Austin and has cultivated a dedicated following.—
Julianna Duennes Russ,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Feb. 2026
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Mish has cultivated a significant social media following as a Marlins insider and previously co-wrote a baseball column for the Miami Herald.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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Upstairs, corridors wrap around a striking double-height bamboo atrium—real moso bamboo is planted at the building's core.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Feb. 2026
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My flag wasn’t just planted at rock bottom; it was cemented.—
Hunter Lacey,
Allure,
26 Feb. 2026
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The architect’s roots in the area run deep—his mother’s side of the family farmed the land from his boyhood—and today, the Taliesin estate functions as something of a crash course for architectural enthusiasts hoping to understand how Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked.—
Rachel Davies,
Architectural Digest,
25 Feb. 2026
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Claude's responses to these prompts are farmed en masse either for direct training of the Chinese models or for a process known as reinforcement learning, a data-intensive approach in which AI models learn decision-making through trial and error in the absence of human guidance.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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Each block was harvested and fermented separately and aged in almost 100 percent new French oak.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
22 Feb. 2026
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At the nursery bare root plants are grown in the ground, harvested as young plants, and sold without soil surrounding the roots.—
Dr. Lauren Kurtz,
Hartford Courant,
21 Feb. 2026
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