STACKING Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

stacking

verb

present participle of stack

as in piling

to lay or throw on top of one another stacked the split logs by the house

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unpiling

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Recent Examples of stacking And since Tampa Bay couldn’t make the playoffs last season despite a red-hot start, Bowles needs to start stacking wins. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026 The sheer variety, including difficult to balance triangles, makes stacking increasingly hazardous. — John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 Pull it up to a writing desk or give it a corner with a floor lamp and a side table for stacking books. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026 Avoid stacking three or four products that target the same mechanism. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026 The researchers went a step further by stacking BTO and CFO nanomembranes on silicon micro-ring resonators, allowing a single device to control light using both electrical and magnetic effects. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026 Repeat with the remaining dough, stacking each sheet on top of one another. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 Trump has expanded that all around the room, stacking the walls with portraits including those of George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Benjamin Franklin. — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026 That is the equivalent of stacking 85,000 adult blue whales on a spoon. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stacking

piling

Verb

In recent months, there's been the Epstein affair, and, in France, scandals surrounding after-school programs are piling up.

— Baptiste Mandrillon, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Gulf developers are piling into Syria’s reconstruction, part of a broader effort that’s aligned with US interests to fill the gap left after Iran and Russia lost influence with the fall of the previous regime in 2024.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026