pileup
noun
pile·up
ˈpī(-ə)l-ˌəp 
1
: a collision involving usually several motor vehicles
2
a
: a jammed tangled mass or pile (as of motor vehicles or people) resulting from collision or accumulation
b
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Examples of pileup in a Sentence
A five-car pileup slowed traffic.
a pileup of e-mail messages that needed to be dealt with
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Instead, there’s an eventual pileup of scheming contrivances that require us to believe a character painted all along as sweetly uncomplicated was really harboring the deviousness of a criminal mastermind.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
Yet what grounds the story amid the pileup of sci-fi terms and lore is the convincingly intense bond that these male protagonists have nurtured.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
Post Post Share Save Buy Copies Print With tens of billions invested in AI last year and leading players such as OpenAI looking for trillions more, the tech industry is racing to add to the pileup of generative AI models.
—Bhaskar Chakravorti, Harvard Business Review, 3 May 2024
That’s where this pileup of positives leads, inevitably, to the possibility that the market has largely figured all this out and is well and fully priced for the soft landing the Fed is working to preserve.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2024
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
Yet what grounds the story amid the pileup of sci-fi terms and lore is the convincingly intense bond that these male protagonists have nurtured.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
Post Post Share Save Buy Copies Print With tens of billions invested in AI last year and leading players such as OpenAI looking for trillions more, the tech industry is racing to add to the pileup of generative AI models.
—Bhaskar Chakravorti, Harvard Business Review, 3 May 2024
That’s where this pileup of positives leads, inevitably, to the possibility that the market has largely figured all this out and is well and fully priced for the soft landing the Fed is working to preserve.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for pileup
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“Pileup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pileup. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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