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We’re in a country that really puts a premium on swagger, on faking it till you make it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

“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

"Can't play digital games till you fix it. Yet I can put my disc in and play. The all digital future looks great," read one comment on X, external.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

It howled till Torak’s ears ached, and scoured his face with flying ice; it spun him round till he could no longer see Renn, or Wolf, or even his own boots.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

John Lewis said the decision to close its in-store bureaux de change was due to falling demand and that it would move gift-wrapping services from a specialised area to its tills.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

His family tills 3,400 acres of soybeans, corn and other crops.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 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

There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

"People say, 'Oh, it'll get tilled back into the soil,' but that doesn't account for the resources wasted in the process — pesticides, labor, energy — all of it has environmental costs."

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

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

If she had died, if Odenigbo and Baby and Ugwu had died, the bunker would still smell like a freshly tilled farm and the sun would still rise and the crickets would still hop around.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Both tilling and solarization negatively affect soil structure and beneficial microorganisms, while landscape fabric, or “weed cloth,” is ineffective and breaks down, leaving plastic fragments in the soil.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

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

He could feel the rumble of the craft’s engines tilling the air but couldn’t make out the silver skin, the sweeping ribs, the finned tail.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand