1
as in staff
a body of persons at work or available for work
a large pool of applicants for the summer internship
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2
as in supply
the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time
a pool of ideas ready to use whenever the cartoonist needs to meet a deadline
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3
as in deposit
a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose
office workers setting up a pool for the collective purchase of lottery tickets
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as in to ball
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Recent Examples of pool
Elliot Williams, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
The results showed that the sweat pooled in the participants’ pores, without forming droplets.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2025
Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Similarly, this year’s prize pool of $90 million is an increase of 57% from the $57.3 million the tournament dished out six years ago.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Much internet communication is largely anonymous and pooled (i.e., visible to all others), which encourages piling on.
—Elliot Williams, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
The results showed that the sweat pooled in the participants’ pores, without forming droplets.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2025
Verb
Sophie Cunningham and Lexie Hull spent the day relaxing by the pool before a game, and Caitlin Clark may or may not have been pretty upset by it.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Similarly, this year’s prize pool of $90 million is an increase of 57% from the $57.3 million the tournament dished out six years ago.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pool
Verb
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Once done, the camera panned over to Kris, who gave a sassy smile before joining her girls.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The actor will join Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe in the action fantasy, which hails from Amazon MGM’s United Artists banner and is slated to get a theatrical release.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Aug. 2025
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Hundreds of them flood each room, some in every color, stacked on top of each other on shelves, in old paper boxes or standing alone.—
Sophie Levenson,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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The key is stacking it in a way that protects dry ingredients from the wet ones and uses condiments as glue.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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Private equity investors, meanwhile, are increasingly piling into renewables.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Baskets are one of those items that can pile up in a home.—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
5 Aug. 2025
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With Disney+ and Hulu set to merge in 2026 — and the Hulu app going away — Disney is reshuffling the marketing leadership of its entertainment division.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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Colbert’s show is ending amid uniquely political circumstances, to be sure, with CBS’s parent company, Paramount, and President Donald Trump having reached a multimillion-dollar legal settlement while the company attempted to merge with Skydance Media.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The Oxbow Bridge has been destroyed by fire, cutting off a key route that connects the rural Arizona community of Cibola in La Paz County to California.—
Stephanie Murray,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The department said officers observed a vehicle connected to a felony driving recklessly.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Both schools combined to form the Purgolders football team.—
La Risa R. Lynch,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Boyd said households will be chosen based on their interest form answers, combined with what their home needs, based on the energy audit.—
Emma George-Griffin,
Freep.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Trump, in an Aug. 4 post on Truth Social, his social media app, heaped additional praise on the actress.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
4 Aug. 2025
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Also, observe that the AI seems to have gone overboard on heaping praise.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Verb
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But as an unstable climate delivers too little water, careening temperatures and chaotic storms, the fates of human food production and birds are ever more linked—with the same climate anomalies that harm birds hurting agriculture too.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025
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More than a decade after saying goodbye to Alex, Gomez still feels inextricably linked to the character.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Pool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pool. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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