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[stash] / stæʃ /






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While having this stash - or personal crisis kit - is new to the UK, it's common in many places across the world.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Except my little freezer stash of homemade breakfast burritos had also dwindled to nothing, and I knew exactly what Monday morning would look like without some intervention: Wake up.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

All of these attendees were following the example set by those at the top: looking out for themselves and trying to swell their own stash.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

There’s leeway and debate on how much a person should stash in cash.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

But what I didn’t clean out was the stash that Doug Swieteck was hiding to prepare for Number 166.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

Another giveaway water voles are present are small food stashes and nibbled plants.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

A sugar-obsessed child of the 1960s, fixated on Milky Ways, Pom Poms and Mallo Cups, I’ve mostly given up sweets—even my grandchildrens’ Halloween stashes don’t interest me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

And according to recent data, central banks’ gold stashes have topped their holdings of Treasuries, $36.8 trillion versus $31.6 trillion.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Hunter, who also stashes party tricks like leaping out of a swimming pool, grew up in the rolling greens of central Mississippi.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

Enrique is hungry, but he fears that the half-dozen rolls from the food throwers might be all there is to his good fortune, so he stashes them for later.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

But you don’t need to be fluent in markets jargon or have thousands of dollars stashed away to get started.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

After a tipoff, intelligence services and police found two handguns and ammunition stashed in a hideout in the forest, Dobrindt said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

The gold was found stashed in a bag under a stone cellar surface while workers were laying sewage pipes for a new homeless shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

I stashed the magazine under my pillow and went to the kitchen.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

Every week or so, I stock up on a “bunch” of ripe bananas, stashing them alongside the apples and oranges in my fruit bowl, only to forget about their existence within a few short days.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

At Navy Federal, Long is already seeing members stashing more money in checking accounts in preparation for covering costs.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

Many protect themselves by stashing tens of billions of dollars abroad or hidden under mattresses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

When he’s stashing the stolen paintings later in a farmhouse’s hayloft and accidentally knocks the ladder out from under him, the moment is amusing and appropriately metaphorical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

"And he's stashing it in a freezer inside the shed."

From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene


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