as in package
a large amount of a material (such as hay or wool) that is pressed together tightly and often tied or wrapped
a bale of cotton/paper
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Recent Examples of bale
An employee dove between two metal bales that surround the facility to quickly carry a customer who had been burned to safety.
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Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Departing from Greenbank Station in Wilmington, this ride trades traditional passenger cars for flatbed railcars lined with hay bales, giving travelers the feel of an open-air hay wagon.
—Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025
Dressed as Pokémon characters, third-year attendees Bryan and Sheri Allbaugh were taking pictures by the festive hay bales with their daughter, Lith.
—Amy Stark Shireman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
Meet animals in the petting zoo, then make your way through the hay bale maze, photo op areas, target toss, and lawn and carnival games.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Collins Aerospace will produce and deliver three full-rate production kits known as high-power transmit set modernization (HPTS-M) packages.—
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So what are Oklahoma residents supposed to do if a mystery package arrives?—
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Gafford, who was recently reinserted into the starting lineup alongside Davis, will be called upon to shoulder more of the load on both ends of the floor, particularly defensively.—
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As more loads were seized through the summer and fall of 2024, Wedding began to rely increasingly on one of Toronto’s most colorful criminal defense attorneys, Deepak Paradkar, for information, according to the indictment.—
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Excavators will support autonomous trenching, loading, grading, and related operations.—
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For top-loading machines, never fill laundry past the agitator.—
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Comcast had wanted to tier the network to a more expensive sports bundle, forcing people who watched Yankees games to pay more, but YES argued Comcast doesn’t tier Mets’ network SNY because Comcast is a minority owner of SNY.—
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The incredible shrinking bundle has posed an existential threat to the RSNs long before Diamond filed for bankruptcy in March 2023.—
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The mother of three said that when her stepmom read her application packet things went south.—
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Hird notes that usually a packet of seeds costs far less than a bunch of fresh herbs from the grocery store, and that seed packet will produce many plants.—
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Poo-Pourri Pocket Toilet Spray 3-pack Last spring, my in-laws rented a passenger van and took us on a family trip, with all of us staying in the same Airbnb.—
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Neila Roa, carrying her 5-month-old baby, sells packs of cigarettes to passersby, having to monitor daily fluctuations in currency to adjust the price.—
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The December shipment of teak — loaded at a Myanmar port owned by an oligarch with close ties to the military — was Florida Teak’s seventh of Burmese teak last year, bringing the total imported by the company in 2022 to roughly 437,000 pounds, import records analyzed by the Miami Herald show.—
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That 5-million-square-foot sorting and handling site temporarily closed midweek due to a cargo plane crash on location, already causing shipment delays ahead of the FAA mandate.—
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The following spring, the Bills moved up in the draft to select a quarterback who became a cornerstone, and optimism ran high going into 2018.—
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An earlier draft of a peace plan, which emerged in November and was criticized as being heavily favorable to Moscow, sought to cap Ukraine’s armed forces at 600,000 personnel.—
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“Bale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bale. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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