as in to stack
to form or arrange parts or pieces of something on top of each other; to form or arrange (something) in layers
The next step in the recipe is to layer the pasta and the sauce in the pan. We layered the fruit with whipped cream and served it with cookies.
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Recent Examples of layer
Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Cobain’s shift in tone adds another layer to the ongoing speculation surrounding Hov’s recording future.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Pamela Anderson opted for autumn layering with her attire and accessories at the Pandora Talisman launch event in New York City on Monday night.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Verb
The orchestration layer must detect failure patterns and adapt—whether by retrying, skipping optional steps or escalating the task to a human reviewer.
—Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Cobain’s shift in tone adds another layer to the ongoing speculation surrounding Hov’s recording future.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
For Bekele, the lean model creates space to embed AI directly into workflows instead of layering it onto legacy systems.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Pamela Anderson opted for autumn layering with her attire and accessories at the Pandora Talisman launch event in New York City on Monday night.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Verb
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Despite so much being stacked against them, the Angels had a shot to win before dropping a 2-1 decision to the Seattle Mariners.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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And over the past nine months, a team of judges has been measuring it, pinpointing the exact location of the wave’s base, then stacking images of Slebir’s crouched pose on top of each other like a totem pole up the face of the wave.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Understand how long deployments take, what training is required, and whether the data strategy creates a feedback loop for continual improvement.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2025
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Without explicit feedback loops—behavioral signals, retraining pipelines and active learning mechanisms—most models get stale over time.—
Keshav Agrawal,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Julia Fonseca, a professor at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, cautioned against homebuyers attempting to predict the level of mortgage rates.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
13 Sep. 2025
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Hale thinks the housing market overall is a bit healthier than the low level of sales might indicate, however.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Interrupting the programming that tens of millions of Americans actively consume each weekend is always going to be a tough sell, but when the disruptive elements themselves start to become overly familiar, the negative implications begin to pile up.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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His recent tax cuts add to the unsustainable public debt the US is piling up, and to investor doubts our financial health over time.—
Harry Holzer,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The corrugation process guarantees that the containers are robust and lightweight, which is necessary for stacking and transportation in an efficient manner.—
CMG Containers,
Sun Sentinel,
1 May 2024
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And—as expected—the solid rear axle does its usual dance on corrugations as well as its obligatory wag on big one-wheel bumps.—
Barry Winfield,
Car and Driver,
1 Aug. 2023
Noun
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Chen has participated in both the supplier and wholesale sides of the alcoholic beverage three-tier system during his career and has witnessed the data discrepancy pain points under unstable policy change and nuanced market data in both segments.—
Nish Acharya,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The iPhone 17 lineup is headlined by the addition of the iPhone 17 Air, which takes the place of the iPhone Plus model that served as the company's second tier phone.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Excavating wetlands, as various studies have suggested, would yield soil that could be mounded into sound-blocking berms, as at Brooklyn Bridge Park; lookouts, as on Governors Island; and undulating grasslands like those at Freshkills.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
9 Sep. 2025
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Pruning 'Kaleidoscope' Abelia 'Kaleidoscope' Abelia naturally develops a low mounding crown that requires little pruning to maintain.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
26 Aug. 2025
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Standard toilet paper products that are generally beneficial for the septic system include recycled toilet paper, biodegradable toilet paper, tree-free toilet paper, single-ply toilet paper, and soft two-ply toilet paper.—
Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Aug. 2025
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But, frankly, some folks in black and orange came off as double-ply soft in that moment.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Layer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/layer. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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