heap
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Spoon-feeding this critical bit of dialogue early in the film allows Barker to heap as much violence, trauma and tropes onto Nikki’s character as possible, under the guise of thematic callbacks.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026
Behind him, a young man stepped over a heap of charred debris, taking care not to spill his latte macchiato.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
On May 4, 1945, at Gunskirchen, a Nazi prison camp in Austria, Edith was found by U.S. soldiers in a heap of people dead or dying.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Top of the heap, alphabetically at least, is Australia – who are sending actual pop royalty Delta Goodrem to Vienna.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Then she saw a glint of metal in the heap of rug fragments.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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