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stack

[stak] / stæk /




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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

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

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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