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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as in to accumulate
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
those newspapers have been stacking up in the basement since we moved here
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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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The tiny pup has been spotted meeting tons of celebs, including Demi Moore and her tiny dog, Pilaf, Powell's Twister costar Daisy Edgar-Jones and more.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Avocado makes a ton of great organic sleep products, particularly its Green Mattress and Eco Mattress Topper.—
Nena Farrell,
Wired News,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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With an enrollment of over 45,000 students, FSU offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across more than a dozen colleges.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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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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But in recent years, Bahrain has quietly begun making its case: A slew of new developments, including the 2.2-mile Pearling Path UNESCO walking trail and the 35,000-square-foot Time Out Market food hub, are luring travelers beyond the famed Formula One racing circuit.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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The downgrading of the talks comes at a critical time, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Washington could walk away if there was no progress on a deal soon.—
Elizabeth Piper,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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So far, Trump has not met with China's president Xi Jinping, the WSJ reported, which will be essential to inking a deal.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2025
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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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In 1978, Wenner sold the magazine to Larry Burke, a young man from Chicago who had spent a chunk of his twenties vagabonding around Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
18 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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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 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 28 Apr. 2025.
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