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pileup

noun as in stack

Strongest match

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TSA has often been a crapshoot, risking pileups as travelers pulled laptops from carry-ons and novice vacationers struggled to untie their sneakers.

Some ended up with an inventory pileup just as shoppers pulled back their spending, leaving companies to discount goods and take a hit on their margins, analysts said.

The incident caused significant traffic pileups on Highway 50.

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In the middle of the night … I’m still haunted by this mawkish pileup of gospel signifiers.

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Behind the leaders, cars collided in pileups that would have made headlines at Daytona.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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