1
as in loads
a considerable amount
earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay
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2
as in pile
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
a stack of playing cards
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Recent Examples of stack
Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Your guests, in fact, don’t care that there is a stack of magazines on the coffee table!
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
The company’s 750,000 robots—up from 200,000 in 2019—include Sparrow, which picks individual items, and Cardinal, which stacks packages.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Shapiro said, standing next to a humming stack of computer servers.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Your guests, in fact, don’t care that there is a stack of magazines on the coffee table!
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
This isn't the spot to stack all your leftover cardboard plant trays, boxes, or other papers.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
The company’s 750,000 robots—up from 200,000 in 2019—include Sparrow, which picks individual items, and Cardinal, which stacks packages.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stack
Noun
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But Amazon piles all the costs of holding sets and holding actors into [the Season 1] budget.—
Michael Ausiello,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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The most expensive food items at each park are nachos with a giant pile of meat and toppings.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Unfortunately, most new parents don’t have a ton of time to devote to practices like meditation or journaling.—
Brigitt Earley,
Glamour,
9 Apr. 2025
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The company says this initiative saves up to 60 tons of food waste annually compared to buffet-style dining.—
Blane Bachelor,
AFAR Media,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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More than a dozen high-quality studies have since found no evidence of a link between childhood vaccines and autism.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2025
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Witnesses described two men, later identified as Villanueva-Morales and 29-year-old Javier Alatorre, entering the bar and firing more than a dozen shots into the crowd of approximately 40 patrons.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Tuohy was a generational talent from New York who won three national cross country championships and set a slew of national high school records over her time for North Rockland.—
Cory Mull,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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This year’s Coachella featured a slew of high-profile performances during the opening weekend, which began Friday and concluded on Sunday.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Sony Pictures Television, where both Ning and Moore are under overall deals, will produce.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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Financial details of the Amalie deal were not disclosed.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Mitchell spent a chunk of the game defending Hawks star guard Trae Young, limiting him to just two field-goal attempts while guarding him for six minutes of game clock, according to NBA tracking stats.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Horned Frogs had a multitude of players like Bud Clark, Avery Helm, Vernon Glover, Major Everhart and more than that missed significant chunks of time during the spring.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For example, the boss tom with a bunch of hens will be hard to decoy in with a single hen.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
16 Apr. 2025
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The Giants have done extensive work on a bunch of quarterbacks, as they are set to host Sanders, Alabama’s Jalen Milroe and Louisville’s Tyler Shough for private workouts, per FOX Sports.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The men then clambered down to the water before launching a raft from the northeast shore of the island.—
Louise McLoughlin,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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Those figures come amid a raft of troubling economic data.—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Stack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stack. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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