tilled

past tense of till
as in cultivated
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 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 Red clover can make a drought- and shade-tolerant lawn alternative, but it is more often grown as an annual winter cover crop and then tilled into the soil as green manure. Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • The fruit originated in temperate regions of the world like Europe and Asia, where wild species were cultivated thousands of years ago.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • After years of research and development, the brand launched Bananatex in 2018, a revolutionary material made from abacá fibers cultivated regeneratively in the Philippines.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • Hidden inside the bathroom of her family home was a secret camera — planted by her second husband, a respected local physician.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Loyd, Jackie Young and Chelsea Gray all bragged to Hammon on the championship podium that their plants are still alive — and ran with the metaphor all season of being planted, not buried.
    Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Since the early 1930s, Flora’s family has farmed in the region.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Still, the amount of heavy metals and pollutants in fish really depends on its species and where it was caught or farmed.
    Simon Spichak, Health, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • But other vegetables, like tomatoes or peppers, need to be harvested before temperatures dip too low.
    Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Gleaners from a local anti-hunger group harvested some of the crops to donate to nearby food banks and shelters.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Tilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tilled. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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