as in piles
a quantity of wood heaped together for burning a dead body
a funeral pyre
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Dampwood termites are found in logs, fence posts, and utility poles; damp wood termites are attracted to firewood piles and water leaks such as from water pipes and AC units.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
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Some stars collapsed to the sea floor, dissolved into piles of goo.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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Nothing, however, replaces cruising around stacks of books at a real bookstore, thumbing through the tomes that catch your eye.—
Terri Daxon,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
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No more set, no more Marshall stacks.—
Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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The incident on Saturday morning began when Oakland police were called about person who had broken into a home on the 11000 block of Ettrick Street, in a hills neighborhood near the Oakland Zoo.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Many returned to their homes over the weekend, only to find them under heaps of rubble.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Sabonis and Zach LaVine are fringe All-Stars most seasons, Keegan Murray is a solid wing starter who shoots and defends, DeRozan can still get midrange buckets and shot-fake fools into heaps of fouls, and Malik Monk is electric in a sixth-man role.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Pyres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pyres. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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