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Recent Examples of topsoil
Ensuring soil is covered with a thick layer of mulch before winter helps to reduce erosion and drying winds that deplete soil nutrients by removing the fertile topsoil.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
High winds brought loose topsoil across the state and into the city, limiting visibility and shocking meteorologists who had not documented a weather event of this kind in the city since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
—Julia Rendleman, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2025
Dudas ended up using the boulder in his landscaping, making space for the massive rock in his front yard, adding mulch, topsoil, and indigenous plants to the area, as well as other smaller rocks.
—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
To shape the rugged Hyde Park property, 60,000 pounds of dynamite, 72,000 cubic yards of topsoil, and 57,000 linear feet of drainage pipe were used.
—Boston Herald Staff, Boston Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
High winds brought loose topsoil across the state and into the city, limiting visibility and shocking meteorologists who had not documented a weather event of this kind in the city since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
—Julia Rendleman, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2025
Dudas ended up using the boulder in his landscaping, making space for the massive rock in his front yard, adding mulch, topsoil, and indigenous plants to the area, as well as other smaller rocks.
—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
To shape the rugged Hyde Park property, 60,000 pounds of dynamite, 72,000 cubic yards of topsoil, and 57,000 linear feet of drainage pipe were used.
—Boston Herald Staff, Boston Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for topsoil
Noun
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Sandy soil is more prone to hydrophobia than loam or clay.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
18 Oct. 2025
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But the conflict between Joe and Ted goes back further and is rooted in a deep loam of backstory that emerges bit by bit.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In flower beds, a light layer acts as natural mulch, insulating roots and conserving soil moisture while decomposing into rich humus over time.—
Special to The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
5 Oct. 2025
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Brunch might mean a humus bowl layered with lamb and pickled onion, or a shakshuka made with black lime tomato stew.—
Rai Mincey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Born enslaved around 1800 in Edgefield, South Carolina, a region known for its rich clay, Drake (who was also known as Dave the Potter) was one of relatively few African American potters to sign his work.—
Jori Finkel,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Combining centuries-old Jewish folklore with the then-new medium of cinema, Paul Wegener and Carl Boese’s pioneering horror film draws its inspiration from a legend about a life-sized clay figure — a golem — that came to life to protect the Jews of Prague.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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To that end the brand hosted an experiential exhibit inside the Grand Palais that brought running to life by creating shifting floor environments from sand to concrete and forest soil to urban gravel, with matching soundscapes.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
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And riding or walking the trails gives users more than a stretch of gravel or asphalt to explore.—
Pam LeBlanc,
Outside,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Though the locker room area felt a little cramped, the treatment menu itself could not be more extensive, with everything from Indian head massages and Guinot facials to Dead Sea mud therapy and a special selection of Ayurvedic offerings.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2025
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Video posted Wednesday on X shows the streets of Santa Cruz, Jamaica, completely covered in mud.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Flocks of snow buntings skitter across the sand, rising in confetti clouds.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Use sand, snow, or leaves typical of the season.—
Carolyn Forché,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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To put this into perspective, while CORONA photographed approximately 590 million square miles of the earth’s surface during its entire multiyear run, Planet photographs 186 million square miles every day.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Trump signed a rare-earths deal with Japan's new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Topsoil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topsoil. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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