as in piles
a quantity of wood heaped together for burning a dead body
a funeral pyre
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Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, alliances with various European powers shifted and forts rose, then fell into piles of matchsticks.—
Jeff Chu,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026 -
That is what remains for much of the area away from the snow piles created by plows.—
Tammie Souza,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Newspaper clippings, photographs and letters of support – gathered into neat stacks or placed in tidy collages – form an unofficial archive of her life’s work.—
April Quevedo,
jsonline.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Atwood has stacks of research for her novels in these archives.—
Will Croxton,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Beyond them, the concrete of the 21st century falls away, replaced by creamy pillars and marble paving stretching into the distance, with green hills beyond.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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From the West Side to the East Side, the riverfront to the surrounding hills, Cincinnati is a city of 52 unique neighborhoods.—
David Ferrara,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Feb. 2026
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Boston remains blanketed in heaps of snow now more than a week and a half removed from a major snow storm.—
Mike Sullivan,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
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When a national economic downturn ends up driving farmers from their land, fertile fields and streams — once home to the myriad insects and amphibians consumed by the storks — turn into toxic trash heaps, and the avians also suffer the consequences.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Pyres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pyres. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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