till
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"I'm absolutely exhausted," Stephanie, who didn't want to share her last name, told AFP, adding the danger of the situation "didn't quite hit me till now".
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"You'll fight for your kids till the very end."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
For me, this is all from ’76 till ’86 roughly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Waller’s comments support our view that the Fed will not hike rates at least till the midterms,” he said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
I put my hand on his shoulder and I looked into his eyes as deep and hard as I could, till I could tell that the sorrow that was in there was paying attention.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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A balcony from which to view the mayhem at the tills below?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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
A tractor tills farmland in Cantua Creek, near the site where a massive solar and battery project is planned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025
A poor farmer who tills the nuns’ field, his three hollow-eyed children, and a guest, a traveling scholar, round out the company.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
They turned up around Halloween, as a roaring storm gripped the wetlands of Northern Ireland and tilled its ground: human bones, sticking up from the tea-colored water in Bellaghy bog, halfway between Derry and Belfast.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
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
The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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In Middle Tennessee, tilling dirt was her role in fighting the Germans and Japanese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Some Indigenous farmers prefer even less intervention, eschewing cover crops and tilling in favor of a rich composting program and the traditional observance of lunar cycles to determine times of planting and harvesting.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
If fields are flooded, that can hamper productivity and slow down planting or ploughing and tilling.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
In the meantime, volunteers with Friends of the Ballona Wetlands are tilling the soil and preparing to put in scores of new trees and plants to help with the environmental restoration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
It’s better working, finishing the tilling, and knowing when you’re done, you can be cool in the barn.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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