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as in pile
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor
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as in hill
an area of high ground
a pitcher's mound
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Recent Examples of mound
Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Athletics 8, Rockies 1 Saturday at Salt River Fields
On the mound: No. 1 prospect Chase Dollander had a lousy afternoon.
—Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2025
Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2024
The cones provide additional protection around small rose bushes and tea roses when mounding soil or mulch.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
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Noun
On the mound, Davis Martin has been sharp in his two starts.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Athletics 8, Rockies 1 Saturday at Salt River Fields
On the mound: No. 1 prospect Chase Dollander had a lousy afternoon.
—Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2025
Verb
Man Mound, located in Sauk County near Baraboo, is the last surviving human-form ancient effigy mound in the world.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2024
The cones provide additional protection around small rose bushes and tea roses when mounding soil or mulch.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mound
Noun
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In September 2024 the FDIC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that was designed to reinforce and clarify the recordkeeping requirements for bank deposits help by nonbank companies.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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In a major policy reversal, the SEC rescinded Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 — a controversial rule that required banks to treat crypto assets as liabilities on their balance sheets.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,Ari Levy,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In fact, could also very well be the difference between a pilot being greenlit or remaining lost in a pile of pitches, never to see the light of day.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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This requires us to go through the forest every year after harvest and create burn piles with all the fallen wood that is too small for firewood.—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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If finding indoor shelter is not an option: Avoid open fields, the top of a hill, or a ridge top.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Mar. 2025
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Ronald Reagan viewed America as a light on top of the hill, calling for the world to embrace democracy.—
Tom Zirpoli,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In four days of operation, she’s stacked nearly $200,000.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
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This year's tournament is stacked with star players from around the world, from Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz to Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka.—
Martin Vassolo,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This isn’t about a group of people who go up a mountain and get blown off by a storm.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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Robo begging his friends to not intervene during a brutal beating; Frog finding his inner strength and using it to cut a mountain in half.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Earlier observations suggest the iceberg's northward drift slowed suddenly in late February, according to a statement from NASA's Earth Observatory.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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After strength training, this drift is less pronounced.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Mound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mound. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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