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[mound] / maʊnd /


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And after playing catch three more days this week, Ohtani and the Dodgers determined he was ready to throw off the mound again.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

But Major League Baseball today isn’t defined by crafty wordsmiths on the mound with their own styles.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Ohtani’s timeline back to the mound is nebulous at this point.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Ohtani is expected to begin playing catch in the near future, but Roberts didn’t have a specific day circled for catch play or his return to the mound.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

The most important conclusion of the most important biochemical paper of the decade was buried, like a polite cough, under a mound of dense text.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

Thanks to four years as vice president and two presidential bids, her name identification is universal, and she has demonstrated the ability to raise mounds of money.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Business executives quite properly have taken these pledges with mounds of salt.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

A motley group still fills the hall: glittering Seelie and terrifying Unseelie; the wild fey that seldom leave their hills, rivers, or grave mounds; goblins and hags; pixies and phookas.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

Great-great-aunt Florentine’s grave was mounded with fresh dirt and flower arrangements from the funeral.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

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

Both heathers have a mounding habit and grow 2-by-2 feet.

From Seattle Times Dec. 31, 2022

The plants grow in a spreading, mounding shape, filling in nicely around taller plants.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2022

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

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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