mound
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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
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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
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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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