sheaves

plural of sheaf
as in loads
a considerable amount contends that casino gambling would generate a sheaf of social problems for the state

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Noun
  • Lithium batteries often maintain more consistent performance throughout their charge cycle, a trait that may be noticeable when tackling hills or carrying heavier loads.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • This leads to higher fungal loads.
    Ana V. Longo, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • What was left of other buildings were buried under piles of their own debris.
    Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
  • Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
    Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Next Health’s most popular IV membership, at $299 a month, bundles two IV drips, two vitamin shots and monthly access to cryotherapy, infrared LED, hyperbaric oxygen and body composition scans, which is a useful benchmark for how the membership math actually works at a mid-tier clinic.
    Allison Palmer Updated June 24, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • For several hundred dollars, companies now sell bundles containing prescription antibiotics, antivirals, corticosteroids, and instructional guides, marketed under the logic that self-treatment is faster, cheaper, and more convenient than professional care.
    Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • The aim is to cut greenhouse gases from roughly 350,000 tons of organic waste a year and help Los Angeles finally comply with California’s ambitious Senate Bill 1383 composting mandates.
    Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • There are tons of mice out there with an entire keypad’s worth of thumb buttons — the Razer Naga pioneered the genre.
    Brad Bourque, The Verge, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Health care stocks, meanwhile, were some of the strongest forces pushing upward on the market after a committee of the European Medicines Agency recommended several medicines for approval and the extension for another dozen of their therapeutic indications.
    Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • Previous cloud-seeding controversies Cloud seeding is now at the center of the rise in weather‑control conspiracy narratives after disasters, such as the tragic Texas floods of 2025 that killed dozens of people, many of them children.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • The city and the official float website offers some tips, including that people shouldn’t tie their rafts or tubes together, go alone, float under the influence or use rope swings.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 22 June 2026
  • Compared with tilted plastic rafts used in warmer climates, this design attaches flexible solar panels directly to thick, waterproof foam sheets, reducing wind exposure.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Yimvert Berroteran, a promising young talent, was among the hundreds of people who died, the Venezuelan national team and the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) said Friday.
    Anabella González, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • Temperatures climb after Sunday, with heat indices in the hundreds for multiple days, prompting the National Weather Service to issue an extreme heat watch for Cook County, in effect from Monday through Wednesday.
    Victor Jacobo, CBS News, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • The president said that his administration would have to drain the pool and start over again as the new liner shed chunks of itself.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • Offerman, whose role provides a framework for the plot, spends chunks of rehearsal watching.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
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“Sheaves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheaves. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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