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At a box in the back of the shop, there is a stack of envelopes filled with gift vouchers that can be picked up by anyone.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Those savings could stack up over the year, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
He opens a folder and takes out a stack of large photographs: portraits of prisoners.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
This week, we rolled out a quiz for WSJ readers to see how your personal dress codes stack up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I search the stack of mail and papers by the front door.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Test your knowledge of the week’s big stories and see how your score stacks up against Slate’s VP of brand and communications, Katie Rayford.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
They’re like children’s playgrounds, with stacks and gangways and a giant anchor beneath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
From here, Robert carefully stacks a Jenga tower of suspense-laden set pieces and surprisingly moving family drama, without so much as letting the structure teeter.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
If interest from Italy stacks up financially, it would seem to make sense for the former Bologna man to return to Serie A.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
His air raid warden’s helmet sits beside the stacks of papers.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Supermarket shelves stacked with products blackened from the fire were stacked up beneath a cratered ceiling and behind blown-out windows.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
That means that for consumers, the total cost burden is likely to increase even if the tariff rates don’t change – because the new tariffs will be stacked on older ones.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The racks can be stacked on top of each other, allowing carriers to move hundreds of vehicles using a single vessel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Tail Town’s main room is filled with stacked cat beds, an exercise wheel, two huge rectangular storage benches sprinkled with doughnut-shaped beds, and cat-themed art on the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Great heaps of knitting were folded and stacked all around.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
But investing is about stacking probabilities in your favor.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Early this month, a dejected Betts had as tough a time explaining to reporters why, despite hitting the ball hard and stacking disciplined at-bats, he’d had little to show for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
More than a century ago, psychologist Wolfgang Köhler showed that chimpanzees could suddenly solve unfamiliar problems by combining objects in new ways, such as stacking boxes to reach a banana hanging overhead.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
But training them to safely perform household tasks like ironing or stacking the dishwasher is proving difficult and costly.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
After cutting and stacking the wood for her, I went back and finished turning her new garden.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
