the stacks

plural noun

: the rows of shelves where books are stored in a library

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That’s not exactly what brought Caught Stealing co-stars Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz to Kim’s Video Underground at the Alamo Drafthouse in Lower Manhattan, but after digging through the stacks with Rolling Stone film critic David Fear, there may just be a Gymkata remake in Butler’s future. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025 The biggest weakness is the interoperability between vastly disparate medical devices and software and the stacks and ages between them. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 The family would turn to the stacks of journals Greg left behind, which detailed his tortuous decline but left much unanswered. Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 24 July 2025 Commentators like Margaret Sullivan, Jennifer Rubin, and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hassan can all be found fresh in the stacks. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for the stacks

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“The stacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20stacks. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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