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With his business empire under scrutiny from federal investigators, Mark Walter was on the hunt for cash when, out of nowhere, he was about to be offered an enormous pile of money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
A nation can have less fire overall but still impressive blazes: The same decades of aggressive firefighting that drove total burned area down also let fuel pile up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
After more than three years of sitting on a massive cash pile, Berkshire Hathaway finally loosened up and found a stock worth buying — its own.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
The news helped Wall Street higher, with the S&P 500 ending at a fresh record high, while tech firms -- which benefit from lower rates -- helped the Nasdaq pile on more than one percent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
We carted it away in barrowloads to a pile in the corner of the garden.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
At Narita, sleeping bags piled up as passengers slept all over the terminal, with massive lines forming for check-in across the airport.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The vessel was found piled high with hundreds of well-preserved containers, which were used to transport goods such as wine and olive oil.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The onshoring story and the actual supply chain point in completely different directions, and most investors who piled into this theme in 2026 have not looked closely enough to notice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Asian chip and technology stocks rose as investors piled into artificial-intelligence plays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
She stopped about three feet from me, set her suitcase down, and piled the bundles on top of it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
TOKYO—China has been piling diplomatic, military and economic pressure on Japan for months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
What has been striking about this summer is not any single record, but the way weather extremes are piling up.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Riley, who was in his first head coaching job at Oklahoma, got the better of Patterson in each of their four meetings, piling up at least 498 total yards each time out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Some days, more than 9,000 tons of the brownish seaweed are piling onto Mexico's shores, including in the world-renowned resort cities of Cancun and Playa del Carmen, Environmental Secretary Alicia Barcena told reporters.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Fig’s empty food dish stared at me from the floor, piling on more pangs of guilt.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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