piles

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It is also squeezing Gulf producers who still depend heavily on oil revenue and forcing difficult decisions to shut down oil fields as crude piles up with nowhere to go.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

He testified that he went about 200 to 300 feet up, to where piles of hose were being dropped.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Animals were often cooked and eaten, and their bones discarded in waste piles where exposure to heat and weather gradually breaks down genetic material.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

Nearly three months on, the building still carries the attack in its bones: insurers picking through debris, piles of glass heaped by the entrance, the auditorium a burnt-out shell.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

The narrow alley is empty except for some piles of refuse and the icy stains of someone’s dirty dishwater.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron