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to lay or throw on top of one another mounding slices of cheese on top of her sandwich meat
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Recent Examples of mounded One stretch, called Stuyvesant Cove Park, comprises only a floodable esplanade with plantings mounded up to the top of an eight-foot-high barrier wall that rises from street level and runs along an elevated section of FDR Drive. —
James S. Russell, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026 The cheese, though, is white Prairie Breeze, shaved fine and mounded like a snowdrift atop the bowl. —Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026 Montgomery says that your strawberry rows should be about 24 inches wide and mounded 6 inches high. —Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026 Rounds of roasted purple sweet potatoes arrive mounded with a mixture of salsa macha and butter, and liberally flecked with chives. —Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026 Fresh thyme and roasted garlic butter make for a bright-yet-rich broth, always mounded with Dungeness claws and hefty prawns. —Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026 Tahini sauce is mounded with honeyed kumquats. —Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 12 Jan. 2026 Fill each pepper half with dip until slightly mounded. —Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026 Excavating wetlands, as various studies have suggested, would yield soil that could be mounded into sound-blocking berms, as at Brooklyn Bridge Park; lookouts, as on Governors Island; and undulating grasslands like those at Freshkills. —Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
James S. Russell, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026 The cheese, though, is white Prairie Breeze, shaved fine and mounded like a snowdrift atop the bowl. —Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2026 Montgomery says that your strawberry rows should be about 24 inches wide and mounded 6 inches high. —Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026 Rounds of roasted purple sweet potatoes arrive mounded with a mixture of salsa macha and butter, and liberally flecked with chives. —Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026 Fresh thyme and roasted garlic butter make for a bright-yet-rich broth, always mounded with Dungeness claws and hefty prawns. —Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026 Tahini sauce is mounded with honeyed kumquats. —Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 12 Jan. 2026 Fill each pepper half with dip until slightly mounded. —Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026 Excavating wetlands, as various studies have suggested, would yield soil that could be mounded into sound-blocking berms, as at Brooklyn Bridge Park; lookouts, as on Governors Island; and undulating grasslands like those at Freshkills. —Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
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If mulch layers are piled up too deeply or an inorganic mulch, like black plastic, is used, water may never reach the soil.— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
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But — in a sign of just how many ethics investigations have piled up — Mace is facing her own probe based on a referral from the Office of Congressional Conduct.— Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
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The county posted a stop-work order on the building, which had plywood animal cages stacked in the back even though the last use permit for the building allowed only vehicle storage.— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
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That’s how strong, how deep, this roster is — four lines of speed and steel stacked one on top of the other.— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
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Continue stirring and splashing in water, aiming for where the flour has not yet clumped and shaking the bowl (or scraping down the sides) as needed to incorporate all the flour, until the mixture forms small, irregularly sized clumps, about rice- or pea-sized.— The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
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When wet, faux fur can quickly become matted or clumped, which can damage its texture.— Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026
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“Mounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/mounded. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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