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No World Series that began 3-0 has ever even gone to a sixth game, and the Brewers have their ace, Jacob Misiorowski, on the mound for Wednesday’s Game 5.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The reality of illegally dumped waste sits before me in a colossal mound next to the side of a motorway.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

“I know how special it is to pitch on this mound here in Milwaukee,” Peralta said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

So, Ohtani kept trying to work his way back to the mound for weeks after receiving a lubricating Orthovisc injection in his knee at the beginning of the All-Star break.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Today, someone else was in it, haggling with a buyer over a mound of fat prawns.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

After avalanches, a common winter hazard in the area, they were called upon to search for trapped hikers or skiers underneath heavy mounds of snow.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Like Mississippian societies, Safety Harbor communities formed smaller chiefdoms and constructed flat-topped mounds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 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

As evidence, Karen pulls out a decades-old photo of my newsroom cubicle with its remarkable mounds of documents, folders, newspapers and books on every horizontal surface.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

And mounds of earth, as if someone had been digging for potatoes or carrots, though I didn’t see anything like that growing here.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

In the past, they had mounded earth on top of existing graves to create new burial sites, or narrowed existing paths to create more cremation spots.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

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

Goguryeo’s elites also learned from the Chinese the art of adorning their large, mounded tombs with colorful murals depicting the lives of royals surrounded by dancers, servants, and enslaved people.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

I tied a strip of fabric from her apron around the handle, and we set it on the mounded dirt.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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