as in package
a large amount of a material (such as hay or wool) that is pressed together tightly and often tied or wrapped
a bale of cotton/paper
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Recent Examples of bale
Does anyone know a farmer willing to part with a few bales of spoiled hay?
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
In a sturdy, redbrick barn in rural Leicestershire, England, Bella Ramsey considers a 10-foot drop from the top of a hay bale.
—Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Does anyone know a farmer willing to part with a few bales of spoiled hay?
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
The Dutch government has gifted a bale of tulip bulbs to the country annually since 1945, and the riot of color each spring grows rowdier every year.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
In a sturdy, redbrick barn in rural Leicestershire, England, Bella Ramsey considers a 10-foot drop from the top of a hay bale.
—Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Does anyone know a farmer willing to part with a few bales of spoiled hay?
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
The Dutch government has gifted a bale of tulip bulbs to the country annually since 1945, and the riot of color each spring grows rowdier every year.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bale
Noun
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Viewers will be able to choose to see different on-screen graphics packages that pair statistics with game movement.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
12 May 2025
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In Houston, a Post Oak Hotel package offers to helicopter guests to the Johnson Space Center to meet a NASA astronaut who’ll take them behind the scenes, including mission control.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
AFAR Media,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Having an unquestionably talented scorer like Ogunbowale (22.2 points per game in 2024) will help ease the load off Paige Bueckers, who averaged 19.9 points per game in her senior season at UConn.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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In Singapore, a skyscraper adapts to monsoon winds, shifting the HVAC load to avoid structural strain.—
Dan Drogman,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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There’s a small receiving room for customers to pick up or drop off bottles and a loading dock for the larger orders.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
10 May 2025
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The Naugatuck train station is a small plexiglass box with a single bench, a lone dot in the expanse of the concrete parking lot, just across from the loading dock of a post office.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
10 May 2025
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Ladder extended the $160 million and worked with other institutions to package the mortgage with dozens of loans, then sell off the bundle in pieces, painting a rosy picture for the buyers.—
Dan Alexander,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Also starting in early June, the companies will sell a bundle of the Spanish-language streamer ViX and Disney+ in Mexico.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
21 May 2025
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The chicken requires minimal ingredients, including a marinade packet with ginger, salt and a variety of other seasonings, available at most Asian grocery stores.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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The resolution, on page 380 of a massive agenda packet for the meeting, noted that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had announced the cancellation of over 400 grants, the effects of which are still being figured out.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
18 May 2025
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The United States leads the pack, largely thanks to its investment firepower.—
Sylvain Duranton,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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The other three conference finalists — Eagles, Chiefs and Commanders — had schedules that ranked in the middle of the pack.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Look beneath and there’s a web of illicit activity that’s propping up these shipments from China.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
20 May 2025
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In Bellevue’s garden was a single vine of Vanilla planifolia, native to Mexico, that Jennings believes descended from one of the first vanilla saplings to survive on the island, after a shipment arrived from Paris in 1822.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 May 2025
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The Knicks – who after last season added Karl-Anthony Towns in a trade for Randle and Donte DiVincenzo and traded five first-round draft picks for Mikal Bridges – opened as -140 favorites.—
Adam Zagoria,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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The draft plan included a recommendation to weaken California’s disposal rules for contaminated soil — typically the largest segment of hazardous waste produced each year.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2025
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“Bale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bale. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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