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He now works at a small fintech company based in Boulder called Tilled, which aims to pay between the minimum and middle of the market range for every position.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2022

Tilled soil is less able to hold water, causing nutrients and other particles to run off into rivers, lakes and the sea.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2021

"Tilled with a pencil," carefully weeded, and abundantly manured, the country looks like a garden.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

To thee the ancient Deep Revealed his pleasant, undiscovered lands; From mines where jewels sleep, Tilled plain and vine-clad steep, Earth's richest spoil was offered to thy hands.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Terraces, one above another, rise from the lake shore, so beautifully cultivated as to realise Emerson's description of the appearance of English soil, "Tilled with a pencil instead of a plough."

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)