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as in loads
a considerable amount
earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay
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2
as in piles
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
a stack of playing cards
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Recent Examples of stacks
Jaures Yip, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2026
Boesch, who had on a white shirt and jeans, pulled out a ziplock bag stuffed with thick stacks of intact cards.
—Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Get Rid Of Clutter Knick-knacks, stacks of magazines, and piles of untended laundry can be magnets for dust.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2025
At the Target store on Riverside Boulevard on Friday, stacks of plastic bags sat prominently at checkout counters — the only visible option available for shoppers at both self-checkout kiosks and traditional lanes.
—Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
In the distance, the twin stacks of Moss Landing Power Plant sit among factories pushing plumes of smoke into the air.
—Alonso Daboub, Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2025
More than 24 hours after a fire engulfed a lumberyard just east of downtown Kansas City, firefighters are still on the scene working to put out flames and hot spots in stacks of lumber.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
The other semi's truck was also ripped open, which revealed stacks of tires.
—Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
During 15 years working across various tech stacks and companies, this has been the most straightforward, underrated, and powerful way to regain my excitement at work.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2025
Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
Instead of playing Tetris with all the food storage containers in your fridge and freezer, invest in a set that stacks nicely.
—Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2026
The ShackBurger stacks a quarter pound patty, American cheese, lettuce, tomato and ShackSauce.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
Freestore stacks all that inventory to the ceiling in its giant distribution center in the west side neighborhood of Riverside.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Dec. 2025
The lamp stacks out to the far sides appear much the same as before, albeit with rectangles replacing the angled polygons at the lowest level.
—New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025
Either way, the offense needs to be able to adapt, just like when an opposing team stacks the box against Rico Dowdle or Chuba Hubbard.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Nov. 2025
Relief on that levy—which stacks on top of Liberation Day tariffs—could be a boon for the Asian nation at a time when domestic demand is weak.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
The technology forms a protective layer so that lithium stacks uniformly.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
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Unlike Tesla, however, Huang said that Nvidia develops full AV stacks for other auto companies rather than manufacturing the self-driving cars themselves.
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At the end of lunch, the entire crew scoops their leftover food into a compost bin, and then neatly stacks their containers on top of each others.
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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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In some of the tunnels that cut through the mountains, there were only a couple of inches to spare on either side of the loads.—
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Shelf ice forms along beaches where ice piles up after being pushed to shore.—
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Amid a large snowstorm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, one curious dog dived into piles of snow in a now-viral video.—
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Lightweight and easy to flatten when empty, this packable tote from Bagsmart is a steal for $26 and features tons of pockets for stashing all of your travel essentials.—
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Also, didn’t Trump just pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran President, who had been sentenced to forty-five years in federal prison for conspiring to import four hundred tons of cocaine into the United States?—
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Having designed dozens of homes and studied many more, interior designers become accustomed to spotting some of the same home accessories over and over again.—
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While this design comes in a dozen colors, the Amazon-exclusive Black Cherry hue is swoonworthy!—
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Once that’s been melted to water, larger chunks of the ice slough off much more easily.—
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If large stuck-on food chunks remain, carefully scrape them off with a razor blade, being mindful not to scratch the stovetop.—
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In a field experiment with hundreds of consultants, GPT-4 improved speed and quality on some knowledge tasks while performance dropped on other, seemingly similar tasks just outside its strengths.—
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In San Francisco, hundreds of people gathered for a protest and march to speak out against ICE, with many expressing anger and outrage about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.—
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Act fast to shop Amazon’s current hottest deals because prices aren’t guaranteed to last through the month.—
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Keep scrolling to check out more of the best Le Creuset deals happening at Amazon.—
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To start, Disney now sells two skinny sports bundles, ESPN-Fox One and Fubo Sports, both of which feature the company’s sports networks without low-viewership channels Sling says it’s forced to buy.—
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In several markets, such bundles already represent a meaningful share of net additions.—
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“Stacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stacks. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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