piled

Definition of pilednext
past tense of pile

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of piled Las Vegas piled up 236 yards and scored four touchdowns after halftime, wasting the Jets’ season-high offensive output. — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026 As the money piled up, the relationships between the company’s early team—including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Jakub Pachocki, Mira Murati, and Dario and Daniela Amodei—began to fray. — Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 2 Nov. 2026 This week, stacks of sandbags were piled onto Newport Beach’s miles-long network of seawalls around Balboa Island and the Balboa Peninsula, an effort to give the historic walls just a bit more height against the rising tide. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 At the Palazzo Reale, an entire wall is punctuated by Picabia’s loose pencil and watercolor studies of the severe faces of Sevillian women, dark tresses piled high under lace mantillas. — Nicole Kaack, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2026 Focus on sorting what's piled up around your desk or dining table. — Andee Tagle, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026 Marist hopes to establish more on the ground this time around after senior running back Conor Hunt piled up 142 yards and three TDs in a 49-28 opening-round win over Neuqua Valley. — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026 Passengers are describing an awful impact that tossed people from the dining car, broke limbs and piled passengers atop one another. — José Bautista Carlos Barragán José Bautista James McManagan, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026 Videos show bodies piled inside the vehicle while officers joked. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piled
Verb
  • Implementations can use thin silicon nanosheets or nanoribbons stacked vertically, with Intel’s RibbonFET providing one example.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • This summer, while going through masses of paper stacked all over George's duplex, Bob paused to read a Navy certificate.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • After officials huddled, Verden was credited with a catch off a deflection but not the touchdown due to an inadvertent whistle.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Najera, Iverson and Martin were on the floor together, and Iverson huddled them to plead for intensity.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • In a city crowded with glossy international properties, this is classic, composed and home-grown, with real cultural depth—one half looking confidently to the future, the other carefully honouring its design legacy.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Around a well, beneath a mulberry tree, or at a table crowded with food and strangers, the landscape that seemed so stark and inhospitable reveals an unexpected generosity, preserved in the rituals of those who continue to make the journey here.
    — Avantika Chaturvedi, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2026

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“Piled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piled. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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