pile in
phrasal verb
piled in; piling in; piles in
of a group of people, animals, etc.
: to move into a place or vehicle quickly
She parked the van and we all piled in.
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Animal control officers are looking to locate the owner of a cat that was found in a carrier in a snow pile in Meriden on Saturday and later died.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2025
And scooping up material from a rock pile in space is a lot more challenging than mining the Earth.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2025
Shareholder pressure increases After Twilio shares debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 2016, investors piled in as the company delivered consistently high revenue growth rates.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
The pessimism hit high-momentum areas of the market in particular, those that had seen waves of euphoric investors pile in during recent years.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2025
And scooping up material from a rock pile in space is a lot more challenging than mining the Earth.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2025
Shareholder pressure increases After Twilio shares debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 2016, investors piled in as the company delivered consistently high revenue growth rates.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
The pessimism hit high-momentum areas of the market in particular, those that had seen waves of euphoric investors pile in during recent years.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pile in
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“Pile in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pile%20in. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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