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pile

[pahyl] / paɪl /




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Leaving his Whitehall office one Monday evening, he swept up a pile of forms to fill in to make his secondment official.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

After the event, some of the Manhattanites peel off to attend a pool party, while the rest pile into the bus and turn back onto the Jericho Turnpike.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Near the iconic Place de la Republique in central Paris, broken glass and debris littered the roads, as a pile of burning bicycles belched out thick smoke.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Germany's final attempt was an experimental reactor known as the B8 pile, constructed in 1945 under the direction of physicist Werner Heisenberg.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Whenever I filled the bobbin, he quickly removed the skein and added it to the growing pile of gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

It piled some pressure on Green leader Zack Polanski in the wake of a by-election defeat.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Schwarzenegger and Newsom piled praise upon each other during the Wednesday afternoon discussion, hugging at the end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Barber recalls driving her husband to medical appointments recently after he had a mini stroke, and how costs piled up as they live in a "medical desert."

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Then come the chips: hot, sturdy, generously salted, piled into black woven baskets alongside ramekins of fire-engine-red mild salsa and a darker, spicier version flecked with onion and jalapeño.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Farther down the river, logs piled against the concrete-slab Coal Bank Bridge.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Living shorelines, such as those along the Orange and San Diego county coasts, involve piling sand atop boulders or smaller stones and covering the berms with vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

"When the Europeans had finished, I had this huge rest and the symptoms were just piling on. Things were getting worse and worse," Dobbin says.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

That’s according to newsletter editor Steven Jon Kaplan, who is alarmed by what he sees as investors piling into stocks without much thought.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Concerns about AI safety have escalated in recent months after models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic were involved in security incidents during testing, piling pressure on governments to regulate the technology.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

I threw on some basketball shorts and went to the kitchen, where Jazz was already piling up my plate.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds


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