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as in loads
a considerable amount earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay

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as in to pile
to lay or throw on top of one another stacked the split logs by the house

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Recent Examples of stack
Noun
Then, insert a regular straw into the middle of each cupcake stack. Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024 The first wave of Apple Intelligence includes features that can proofread or rewrite text, remove objects from photos and summarize a stack of notifications into a single message. Kristian Burt, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
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Those taxes would stack on top of the base sales taxes levied by the state, county taxes and in some cases existing city taxes. Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024 Crafting your team’s social contract is like stacking hands on the things that really matter. Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stack 
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Noun
  • Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.
    Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • The zoo shared a video of the baby calf sniffing for food in a pile of glass across its social media accounts to celebrate her birth.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • The band and their record label added tons of live recordings, new mixes, and other special bits of content that turned the one CD into a box set–the kind that fans of the band couldn’t wait to get their hands on.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Microsoft's approach also preserves tons of screenshots, which can include an array of sensitive information — although the company has settings to turn off the feature for specific apps and websites.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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  • More than a dozen Santa Clara alumni and other community leaders served as Opus Prize jurors, and 16 SCU students, faculty and staff members were ambassadors who joined on site visits to the prize finalists.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Shakira, Bad Bunny, Anitta and Karol G are among the more than two dozen artists nominated for the biggest awards of the night — record of the year, album of the year and song of the year.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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  • The new council and mayor must tackle a slew of troubles for the city, which faces the largest per-capita homeless population in the county, a stark shortage of firefighters and police officers, and ongoing questions on how to balance growth and draw in business.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The principles primarily focus around worker upskilling and protection, as well as cybersecurity and safety and come at a time when many companies have already begun implementing AI systems or partnering with third-party vendors to power a slew of different use cases.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • In today’s deal, North’s leap to four hearts is preemptive, and West doubles that outrage with his 23 high-card points.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Who pays for a replacement roof often comes down to who has more bargaining power, and the inability to obtain insurance coverage has the potential to kill deals, agents report.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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  • Checking Your Malware Protection Anti-Malware makes up the biggest chunk of the security score, worth 30 points.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The three states account for 44 electoral votes, a large chunk of the 93 electoral votes that the seven battleground states make up.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • My friend gave me a whole bunch of her little girl’s clothes — such a high volume of items that some still had the tags on.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Wolk herself responded to the controversy by tweeting a bunch, naturally.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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  • In 1952, San Francisco and Antioch became the first communities in California to supplement naturally occurring levels of fluoride in their drinking water, after a raft of studies showing that the mineral made teeth enamel stronger and more resistant to acid.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Google’s big push comes by way of Android 15 with a raft of new updates, while Samsung is arguably doing more, clamping down on sideloading, defaulting to maximum restrictions and pushing its Knox ecosystem as an alternative to Apple’s equivalent.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Stack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stack. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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