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“It gives people that feeling of this is how democracy works,” said Dominas, 63, who was working the till at a shop off the main drag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

"What's wrong with just staying in the UK, staying out till sunset, riding your bike, just going to the river, like I did? I really want the kids to experience a nostalgic summer."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

This one won’t reach Walnut Grove till season 2.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

While she browsed for books in the classroom library, I sharpened my pencil till it was just a point and an eraser.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

Captain Andy Robertson once worked on the tills at Marks & Spencer on Sauchiehall Street, while Lawrence Shankland was employed in a Hillington plumbing factory before turning professional.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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

The dull green antique coppers spilled from out the tills of their eyesockets onto the stained and rotted coffin floors.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

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 was tilled and the first crop planted in time for the pale light of spring.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

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

On any given day, the farmer might do a dozen different things on the land, such as tilling, planting, weeding, harvesting or adding fertilizer.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2023

“So many ignorant lands in need of my knowledge. I will teach them the glories of tilling, irrigation, fertilizing!”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan