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[til] / tɪl /




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"We were looking to freeze, but actually the advice was we don't need to freeze yet so we can probably wait till after the wedding," said Jones.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Takeaways are all about playing longer and harder than the offense does, and our job doesn’t stop till somebody or the ball is on the ground,” Taylor said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

It also comes as OpenAI and rival Anthropic are both racing towards becoming public companies over the next several months, though OpenAI might not hold its IPO till sometime in 2027, according to reports.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

"It rained all night, but we stayed put till the choppers came for us," he added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Then he plunged them into the snow and began to build a wall of snow up around the entrance, filling the gaping space till only a small hole was left for the wind to penetrate.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

A balcony from which to view the mayhem at the tills below?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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

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

As more land at home has been tilled to grow corn for ethanol, commodity prices have gone up worldwide.

From Salon ● May 6, 2023

“Since time before time our family has tilled this field,” he tells me proudly and many times over.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Having to avoid pesticides and herbicides often makes organic farms more reliant on tilling soil to keep crops weed-free, for example, so many must be more proactive about soil health.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2025

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

“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




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