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Recent Examples of topsoil
Following the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption, vast tracts of farmland in central Luzon in the Philippines were rendered unproductive for years due to acidic ash and buried topsoil.
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David Kitchen, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2025
Porosity plus water holding capacity can be increased as well as lessening the potential for topsoil erosion.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 18 May 2025
Previous wildfire testing has found roughly 20% of properties fail to meet California’s cleanup goals for potentially toxic materials after a first round of debris removal, which typically involves taking off about 6 inches of topsoil.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
Bulk mulch, compost, and topsoil are sold by the cubic yard, which equals 27 cubic feet.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
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David Kitchen, The Conversation, 15 Apr. 2025
Porosity plus water holding capacity can be increased as well as lessening the potential for topsoil erosion.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 18 May 2025
Previous wildfire testing has found roughly 20% of properties fail to meet California’s cleanup goals for potentially toxic materials after a first round of debris removal, which typically involves taking off about 6 inches of topsoil.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
Bulk mulch, compost, and topsoil are sold by the cubic yard, which equals 27 cubic feet.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for topsoil
Noun
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Many of us can’t wait to get into our gardens, turn over that fine Illinois loam and plant.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
19 May 2025
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Those interactions spring from the rich loam of history and lore that gives the sport its halcyon glow, and from which even a humble amateur game absorbs vicarious grandeur.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Collectively, these leftovers become part of the humus of the soil, helping retain water and support soil-dwelling microbes, invertebrates and roots.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Burnt soil has obviously lost any mulch that had been present as well as the layer of decomposing organic material or humus just below it.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Now, his triumph signifies a continuation of some red-hot form as tennis transitions from clay to grass.—
Leon Imber,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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The 2009 discovery of footprints (human and animal) left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park sparked a contentious debate about when, exactly, human cultures first developed in North America.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2025
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Finally, the property has a deep-water dock and moorings, granite outcroppings, a gravel beach area, and pathways throughout the sprawling acreage.—
Emma Reynolds,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Grass for gravel The historic White House Rose Garden is getting a new look.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
Noun
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The crews used an excavator to lift the uninjured Dancer out of the mud, officials said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2025
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Kong pounds and punches his way through materials and crawls through mud to uncover collectibles.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
18 June 2025
Noun
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The space features a rich palette of earthy tones such as sand, brick, and satin brass, complemented by natural materials such as oak, linen and raffia.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
20 June 2025
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The work there has included arranging bales of straw on the sand, which has enabled native shrubs to take root and begin to keep down the blowing dust.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Intriguing nose of smoldering earth that is balanced by perfumed notes of violets and warm raspberries with juicy cassis flavors with a firmer structure than 2016 yet there is a graceful quality to the texture with a fierce minerality underneath the delectable fruit.—
Cathrine Todd,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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After Israel bombed Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981 and Syria’s in 2007, Iran decided to spread its nuclear program out over multiple sites, with its crucial elements hidden so deep beneath the earth that not even Israel’s 5,000-pound bunker busters could reach them.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
18 June 2025
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“Topsoil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topsoil. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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