as in to accumulate
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
snow piling up in the driveway at a rapid pace
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as in accumulation
a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time
a pileup of e-mail messages that needed to be dealt with
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Recent Examples of pile (up)
City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Compared to that seven-car pileup of a road movie, Honey Don’t is practically a whipsmart thriller.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Each back in the Jaleel McLaughlin-Audric Estime-Tyler Badie-Blake Watson pileup has gotten their share of opportunities.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
New Horizons didn't observe such a pileup, but Persephone would send a more sensitive instrument that could make a more detailed examination.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Noun
On Labor Day, a pileup on a Santee street fatally injured a Santee resident, the medical examiner reported.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Compared to that seven-car pileup of a road movie, Honey Don’t is practically a whipsmart thriller.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Each back in the Jaleel McLaughlin-Audric Estime-Tyler Badie-Blake Watson pileup has gotten their share of opportunities.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
New Horizons didn't observe such a pileup, but Persephone would send a more sensitive instrument that could make a more detailed examination.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pile (up)
Verb
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Oct. 2025
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Nonfood-contact surfaces have accumulation of soil.—
Gege Reed,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12 inches above 9000 feet with localized amounts of 14 or more inches in the highest peaks.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Go find your asterisk collection and spray it in our direction.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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These were second only to the charming spring 2026 collection that, in sync with the theme, hinged on slipdresses with lace inlays, airy blouses and pants with delicate embellishments, crochet separates and lingerie pieces.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Days after a gunman drove a truck into a Grand Blanc Township church and opened fire on worshippers, killing four people and wounding eight, hundreds gathered in Flint for a community safety briefing focused on crisis response and prevention in houses of worship.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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It is reserved for two duck boats and vast piles of decoys.—
Worth Matthewson,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
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Then began the process of trimming the pile down to a fraction of its size.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
Noun
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No other metal is said to be more effective than palladium for separating hydrogen from gas mixtures.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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Stir your fruit and/or veggies around in the mixture to loosen up leftover dirt and impurities.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Could only participate, if surreptitiously, in this long-overdue cumulation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Pile (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pile%20%28up%29. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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