stack
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For Jenga, it was how to add weight to the tiny blocks to make sure they could stack well—players still need to use a toothpick to slide them out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In doing so, they did not just beat Stoke in an FA Cup final, they collected a stack of titles and went on to completely dominate English football for more than a decade.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
“It’s just trying to stack weeks, trying to get better with my team,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
They retire, they’re handed a stack of forms, and the rollover box is the obvious one to check.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
I think of the stack of paper, the bills in the “to be paid” folder.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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It also stacks an additional $15,000 credit for each new hire to incentivize expanding journalist head counts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Customers didn’t inherently desire power saws and stacks of lumber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
That stacks up for a £4m keeper, you might think.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
My $1,330.13 was, in other words, the accumulated sticker price of my particular trail through the stacks.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Working hurriedly, before the hallways filled with students rushing to and from morning classes, they dropped stacks of leaflets throughout the corridors, outside classroom doors, and on windowsills and shelves.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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But crucially, they are modular and can be stacked together, then packed with cameras, sensors, communications equipment or other technology depending on their purpose.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
It was like Christmas every Wednesday afternoon as we shredded packages and stacked CDs, occasional stickers and vinyl, splitting the spoils and loading them into our computers — by hand even!
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
It brought in a retired former employee as a consultant, used a special foam to release the trays and stacked them on boards rather than on top of each other to prevent cracking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Crates stacked at a grape farm in Fresno County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
I find Henek and Danuta in a section of the barn that has been fitted with wooden beds stacked on top of one another, ladders going up their sides.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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They also built vessels by stacking coils of clay rather than molding them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Ms. Singer calls it a gimmick, noting that “many kids were clicking, dragging and dropping—essentially stacking or compiling—prewritten coding blocks, without writing out the computer code itself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Early this month, a dejected Betts had as tough a time explaining to reporters why, despite hitting the ball hard and stacking disciplined at-bats, he’d had little to show for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The next captain, Rodri's future, City's starting XI for Sunday's Community Shield against Arsenal - the big decisions are stacking up as Maresca begins to settle into one of the biggest jobs on the planet.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
From then on he worked slowly and methodically, stacking the wood in neat rows in the cart.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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