as in to accumulate
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
snow piling up in the driveway at a rapid pace
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as in accumulation
a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time
a pileup of e-mail messages that needed to be dealt with
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Recent Examples of pile (up)
Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Eight people from the four-car pileup, including the 75-year-old man and 9-year-old child, were rushed to Elmhurst Hospital for emergency care.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Nov. 2024
While Harrison Smith, Cam Bynum, Josh Metellus and Theo Jackson will surely make the 53-man, there’s a pileup behind them.
—Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
The pandemic and a wave of retirements in the agency’s Facility Licensing and Investigations Section has contributed to the complaint pileup.
—Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2024
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Blizzard-like conditions could drop visibility to near zero, putting drivers at risk of multi-car pileups or drifting off the road, AccuWeather forecasters wrote.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Eight people from the four-car pileup, including the 75-year-old man and 9-year-old child, were rushed to Elmhurst Hospital for emergency care.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Nov. 2024
While Harrison Smith, Cam Bynum, Josh Metellus and Theo Jackson will surely make the 53-man, there’s a pileup behind them.
—Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
The pandemic and a wave of retirements in the agency’s Facility Licensing and Investigations Section has contributed to the complaint pileup.
—Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2024
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In Mercer, Summers, and Western Greenbrier counties in West Virginia, a warning is in effect until 7 p.m. EST Saturday, with between 5 and 7 inches of snow expected, and in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia, up to 6 inches of snow is forecast to accumulate.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
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Temperatures in the Fort Worth area remain around freezing, and the precipitation could cause a small amount of additional ice to accumulate bridges and overpasses.Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Jan. 2025
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While the amount of snowfall expected varied from state to state, up to nine inches of accumulation was possible in Alaska's Municipality of Skagway and New York's Wayne and Cayuga counties, the NWS said.John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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To not have, earlier in our assigning process, decided to interrogate the fraught and fractured gender dynamics of wealth accumulation, of corporate influence, of power.Katie Drummond, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
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The homeowner sent about 7 grams of the rock to Chris Herd, a curator of the University of Alberta's meteorite collection and professor in its science faculty, via the university's Meteorite Reporting System.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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The jacket featured a fur panel (this suit was from Dior’s fall 1998 collection sourced from Tab Vintage).Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Jan. 2025
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Residents gathered around the intersection, frustrated there were no details about when they would be let in.Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Several political leaders, family, and admirers had gathered at the Cathedral this morning in Washington to celebrate the former President’s life and legacy.Shirleen Guerra | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Jan. 2025
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Wear layers and get cozy on the couch under a pile of blankets.Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
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To help determine what to put in the no pile, consider using the 90/90 decluttering rule.Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2025
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Minimize noise and clutter Dr. Small says environmental triggers like loud sounds and jumbles of papers and clothing can increase sundowning symptoms.Cathy Habas, SELF, 17 Jan. 2025
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Owners’ names now read like jumbles of computer code, retirement homes or rock bands: Silver Sage, Dream Homes, Blue Apple, P Fin VII, Wref II, 3xs2, Vivid, Straight Red Lines, TKJK, Jags Proper.Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
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Make Caramel For caramel mixture, butter the sides of a heavy medium saucepan.Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2025
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Wildfire smoke is a mixture of water vapor, gases, and microscopic particles known as particulate matter.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Pile (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pile%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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