as in piling
to lay or throw on top of one another
stacked the split logs by the house
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Recent Examples of stacking
Bundle Everything Bundle everything—flights, hotels and rental cars—using corporate travel apps or cards with perks, but the real savings is stacking your trips.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
These microtubules exist in a delicate equilibrium, stacking on new tubulin units for a while, then reaching a crisis and falling apart.
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Avoid stacking pans without protection to prevent scratches and chips.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
Years after his days of stacking yellow and green blocks in the classroom, Srivastava now spends his time playing with a very different set of building blocks.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
By stacking layers at different angles, radiation is trapped even more effectively.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
Some will surely see that as the movie stacking the deck against Maggie, not to mention the other students around her, including her trans partner, Alex (Lio Mehiel), whom Alma keeps misgendering.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
In college football’s evolution, too many of these games have been paused to fit a business model that means stacking home dates against weak teams in an effort to reach a certain bowl tier, or influence the playoff selection committee.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
Store cut tomatoes in a single layer as opposed to stacking them on top of each other in the container.
—Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
These microtubules exist in a delicate equilibrium, stacking on new tubulin units for a while, then reaching a crisis and falling apart.
—Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Avoid stacking pans without protection to prevent scratches and chips.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
Years after his days of stacking yellow and green blocks in the classroom, Srivastava now spends his time playing with a very different set of building blocks.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
By stacking layers at different angles, radiation is trapped even more effectively.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
Some will surely see that as the movie stacking the deck against Maggie, not to mention the other students around her, including her trans partner, Alex (Lio Mehiel), whom Alma keeps misgendering.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
In college football’s evolution, too many of these games have been paused to fit a business model that means stacking home dates against weak teams in an effort to reach a certain bowl tier, or influence the playoff selection committee.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
Store cut tomatoes in a single layer as opposed to stacking them on top of each other in the container.
—Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stacking
piling
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His recent tax cuts add to the unsustainable public debt the US is piling up, and to investor doubts our financial health over time.—
Harry Holzer,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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And on Wednesday, Eagles legend Jason Kelce weighed in on the matter, piling onto the list of critics Carters has.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Stacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stacking. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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