pile
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Maybe they receive interest or dividends and let the proceeds pile up.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
City information officer Jay Pelayo told news agency AFP that the building's walls and scaffolding surrounding it had buckled, likely trapping people in a pile of debris.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
A smoothie is not just a pile of nutrients in a glass.
From Science Daily • May 24, 2026
They are sitting on a pile of cash the size of a small country and waiting for a markdown.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
He clawed at the pile of gold next to him as though he thought to strangle me with it, but then he shouted with alarm when he realized that he could not pick it up.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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