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The moment Cam Schlittler emerged from the dugout and headed to the mound for the seventh inning on Tuesday, the New York Yankees’ plan to conquer October immediately became clear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

But he only made 14 starts on the mound before injuries limited him to hitting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

It is hard to make much of Richard Long’s “Battery Park,” a photograph of a rectangular trench and a sod-covered mound that the artist constructed in Lower Manhattan in 1969.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Should they put their belief in the 11th-year pitcher who likely would be the odd man out in the postseason if Shohei Ohtani still were available to deal on the mound?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

As he heads to the mound, Webb waves to Ben-Ben and Malik and then points to me.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

And it is true that what last month was just bushland and rough grazing ground near the village is now scarred by pits, mounds of earth and makeshift mining camps.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Things have been especially grim on the 51st Street overpass, where tents, makeshift structures and huge mounds of trash lined the sidewalks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

“Most district schools would not have mounds this high,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

But in Guryong Village, set among mounds of accumulated refuse, access to air conditioning -- or even a reliable supply of electricity -- is far from guaranteed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

And I liked to walk around the miniature pyramid like mounds of fresh earth dug out by the moles.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

In addition to identifying forts similar to the walled fortresses Poidebard found, the team identified forts with interior architecture features and ones built around a mounded citadel.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023

In the distance, a Boswell crew with earth-movers was building a levee, a rising barrier of mounded dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

These kings commanded large armies, drawing legitimacy from their military prowess and creating mounded tombs that required vast resources and labor.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

At both palace and castle, the flowers continued to pile up, bouquets sometimes mounded a couple of feet high.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2022

She was among friends—a half-dozen Japanese girls squatting in the rows together, their faces shrouded by straw hats—and would not acknowledge that she knew him when he passed her with his own flat mounded high.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

The solution was mounding the road a bit in the center and building sloping stone-lined ditches on both sides of the avenue to carry the runoff away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

Taste and season with salt and pepper, then transfer to a platter, mounding it to one side.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

But radar satellites that measure ocean height can also find them, by looking for subtle signs of seawater mounding above a hidden seamount, tugged by its gravity.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2023

A mounding shrub with a modest suckering habit, the plant produces deliciously fragrant pink or white blooms in summer against pristine foliage, followed by a showy crop of bright red hips in fall.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

They gathered the silver to them, mounding it around, piling it high.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi