as in accumulations
a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time
a pileup of e-mail messages that needed to be dealt with
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Recent Examples of pileups
More than a decade of tackles, blocks and pileups has taken a toll on many former professional football players, something former Atlanta Falcons lineman Phil McKinnely knows all too well.
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Roni Robbins,
AJC.com,
21 Apr. 2026
The shortage of agents has caused massive pileups at security checkpoints.
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Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
17 Mar. 2026
Spring wind events can produce sudden dust storms that reduce visibility to near zero, leading to deadly highway pileups.
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Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
1 Mar. 2026
Seven vehicles were involved in two pileups that occurred in a five-minute period Monday on the Golden Gate Bridge, the California Highway Patrol reported.
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Cameron MacDonald,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
On Tuesday night, New York City’s color-loving partygoers braved the fierce cold, emerging from cars on Gansevoort Street clad in floor-length sequin gowns and a kaleidoscope of prints, stepping over three-foot snow pileups to enter the museum.
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Gaby Keiderling,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2026
Smart uses of trays can add style and function to your home and avoid clutter pileups.
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Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Jan. 2026
Such low visibility poses a considerable risk, potentially leading to accidents and vehicle pileups.
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Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Instead, the generic ‘90s throwback action movie plays like a string of car-crash pileups and urban destruction with little of interest in terms of the human element.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Roni Robbins,
AJC.com,
21 Apr. 2026
The shortage of agents has caused massive pileups at security checkpoints.
—
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
17 Mar. 2026
Spring wind events can produce sudden dust storms that reduce visibility to near zero, leading to deadly highway pileups.
—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
1 Mar. 2026
Seven vehicles were involved in two pileups that occurred in a five-minute period Monday on the Golden Gate Bridge, the California Highway Patrol reported.
—
Cameron MacDonald,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
On Tuesday night, New York City’s color-loving partygoers braved the fierce cold, emerging from cars on Gansevoort Street clad in floor-length sequin gowns and a kaleidoscope of prints, stepping over three-foot snow pileups to enter the museum.
—
Gaby Keiderling,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2026
Smart uses of trays can add style and function to your home and avoid clutter pileups.
—
Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Jan. 2026
Such low visibility poses a considerable risk, potentially leading to accidents and vehicle pileups.
—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Instead, the generic ‘90s throwback action movie plays like a string of car-crash pileups and urban destruction with little of interest in terms of the human element.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pileups
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As the Eaton and Palisades fires roared across the Altadena area and the coastal Santa Monica Mountains in January 2025, the flames were fueled in part by accumulations of bone-dry chaparral, brush and other vegetation.
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The snowpacks that feed the river hit their lowest level on record this year, with snow accumulations in Colorado’s high country peaking a month early in March and containing just half the average moisture.
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What was left of other buildings were buried under piles of their own debris.
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Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
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The first big projects will involve analyzing mixtures of light elements at megabar pressures and the dynamic properties of hot dense matter at gigabar pressures.
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Using a knife or skewer, swirl cherry preserves into the ice cream mixtures.
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Rich reds, electric greens, and tropical blues appear in many of our summer collections and are taking over city streets from Paris to New York, lending everything a sporty, high-energy joie de vivre.
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This marks the third release between Nahmias and Puma since the relationship was first revealed by FN in June 2025 during Paris men’s collections.
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At fan gatherings, drones are barred within a 1-nautical-mile radius and up to 1,000 feet above ground level.
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Despite the trio's famous parents, the youngest Brodericks have managed to mostly stay out of the spotlight, except for public family gatherings like a January 2026 book launch for composer Marc Shaiman.
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“Pileups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pileups. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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