as in loads
a considerable amount
a degree in that field would give you a plateful of possibilities for a career
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Noun
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As trucks roared up the landfill and dumped fresh loads of trash, adults and children alike rushed forward, gathering beneath cascading avalanches of waste to grab anything of value.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026 -
The 37-year-old is aging like fine wine, averaging nearly 26 points per game for the Houston Rockets while shouldering one of the heaviest minutes loads in the league.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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The Spruance, with a displacement of around 9,000 tons, is more than 500 feet long and carries a crew of 329.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2026
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The aircraft carrier, which measures about 1,106 feet in length and displaces over 100,000 tons, is now fully mission capable.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Apr. 2026
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The heartbroken mother of a 15-year-old boy who was beaten and fatally shot inside a Queens park as dozens of teens callously filmed the slaying on their phones condemned his killer — and those who did nothing but watch him die.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Webb escaped further trouble but needed another dozen pitches to finish the inning.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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The three-block stretch, between 16th and 19th avenues, looks markedly different from just a year ago, when tents, abandoned cars and piles of trash crowded the street and sidewalks.—
Da Lin,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Black smoke billowed into the night sky of the Ukrainian capital, the morning revealing charred cars and piles of debris scattered next to damaged buildings.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
16 Apr. 2026
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Scientists are also studying the formation of unusually large ice chunks called megacryometeors that can fall from the sky even on clear, sunny days.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Explosives blasted the building supports and gravity pulled the structure down, leaving a heap of concrete chunks on the site.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
13 Apr. 2026
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Even states that neither import nor export huge quantities of goods ultimately had to pay the price of tariffs in the form of higher food prices, as farmers began passing costs down to consumers.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Parts of several common plants, including rhubarb leaves, are harmful only if eaten in large quantities.—
Midwest Living,
Midwest Living,
14 Apr. 2026
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Slowly, incrementally, Andrew disassembled the coach, until hundreds of little bits of him were scattered from Rockville to Manassas.—
John McPhee,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Climate change and persistent drought have already sapped hundreds of billions of gallons of water from the river’s annual flow.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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Most notably, Point Loma Heights and Azure Vista-adjacent Sunset Cliffs and Riviera Villas were large tracts with good-size lots, wide streets, alleys, smooth sidewalks and all utilities.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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From 2005 to 2015, Krasner’s market totaled about $14 million across 22 lots, compared with $32 million for Helen Frankenthaler across 114 lots—a gap of a little more than twofold in value and more than fivefold in volume.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Platefuls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platefuls. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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