stack
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They retire, they’re handed a stack of forms, and the rollover box is the obvious one to check.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
He ends it as the attack leader, with statistics that stack up alongside some of the all-time greats of the game.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The signature JonnyPop is a rainbow stack of cherry, orange, lemon, lime, blue raspberry and grape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Fail to stack them quickly enough and players are greeted with “BORDER BREACHED.”
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
It was a stack of bread, dozens of flat black loaves piled one on top of another.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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It was in that role that he solidified his unique look, wearing stacks of heavy gold chains, often gathered from forgetful patrons who left them behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
My $1,330.13 was, in other words, the accumulated sticker price of my particular trail through the stacks.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
So we have stacks and stacks of cards that we’ve written each other.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Jury-rigging their electricity and doting on a dog named Jasper, they pass the time playing poker with stacks of now-useless greenbacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
When the FBI raided Abel’s Brooklyn studio, the haul of evidence included stacks of American cash, spy gadgets Abel had crafted over the years, and Abel’s KGB codebook and one-time pads.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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De Palma’s follow-up opened nine years later with a cast stacked with rising Hollywood stars, including Scarlett Johansson, Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Two 50-foot-long passenger decks were stacked inside the hull.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“It’s easy to feel cynical and apathetic in a moment where so many things seem stacked against us,” Villegas said in an interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Martin Boyd, from the charity, says that since the Grenfell fire, it has become clear that "the law is still stacked against the leaseholders who have a limited means of redress for building defects".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
He flipped past more pages stacked with strange letters until he found a drawing of one of these life stages.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
The researchers used an HI spectral stacking method to combine radio signals that would have been too faint to detect individually.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Early this month, a dejected Betts had as tough a time explaining to reporters why, despite hitting the ball hard and stacking disciplined at-bats, he’d had little to show for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
They “had to find workarounds, whether through open-sourcing software, stacking less powerful and cheaper local chips, investing more in China’s electricity grid.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
But training them to safely perform household tasks like ironing or stacking the dishwasher is proving difficult and costly.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
When the laundry is dry, Dad sits next to me on the couch to fold, stacking everything on the coffee table in front of us.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
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