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“We were young and crazy. We waited till the players came out and kind of talked to them,” said David, who says he once walked with Wilt Chamberlain to his car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

"Only 693 days till the Euros" reassures the Sun to its heartbroken England readers after the national side's semi-finals loss in the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Yes, there was Theranos and “fake it till you make it” Elizabeth Holmes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

I wasn’t going to be able to put away another tiny teaspoon till I set things straight.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

A fish and chip shop owner says he is installing self-service tills to protect staff from customers with "abrupt" questions about price rises.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Thousands of manually collected prices will now be replaced by millions of prices collected automatically from supermarket tills.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

Though recently retired, he refuses to give up his peshmerga uniform as he tills his small plot of land.

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026

She starves herself for her cause, crosses oceans and tills land to create the utopia that she believes is possible.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

I am spending them like enchanted gold, doomed to turn back into dried leaves in tills all over town.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

In Scandinavia and parts of Northern Europe, these mobile cattle herders took just a few centuries to largely replace the sedentary farmers who had tilled the soil with stone tools for millennia.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2024

“The hope is that the kids will learn to respect nature and the environment,” Kim said, inspecting the newly tilled dirt where corn and sweet potatoes will be planted.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2023

On a recent Sunday, children rode bicycles on new dirt paths, women tilled soil for gardens and men pulled tarps onto shelters.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

He had emptied the vessel which life had tilled for him and found the emptying meaningless.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

In Middle Tennessee, tilling dirt was her role in fighting the Germans and Japanese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Q: In The Blue Plate, you visited a Colorado farm where the farmers have eliminated things like mechanically tilling the soil or leaving land fallow, both of which degrade soil.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

They also have the potential to help restore balance in an ecosystem that once relied on the apex predator as gardeners — tilling soils for plants and dispersing seeds through their scat.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

If fields are flooded, that can hamper productivity and slow down planting or ploughing and tilling.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023

Everything remained the same, the dryness in the air, the dusty winds, the refugees tilling dried soil, but Kainene was not back.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie