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as in loads
a considerable amount
earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay
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as in piles
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
a stack of playing cards
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Recent Examples of stacks
Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
And it was provided only old paper maps and stacks of interment cards that listed names, dates and funeral homes.
—Robbyn Abbitt, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
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
Atwood has stacks of research for her novels in these archives.
—Will Croxton, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
Its customer base consists primarily of legacy businesses that operate outdated backend technology stacks, including large banks, telecom companies and even the Department of Defense.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
The table below stacks the 15 modern-era finalists by Pro Football Reference’s Hall of Fame Monitor, which attempts to project the likelihood of enshrinement using Pro Bowls, All-Pros, championships, statistical milestones and its own proprietary metric, Approximate Value (AV).
—Mike Sando, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
In a back room away from the fray, employees took inventory amid stacks of cardboard boxes filled with silver — worth a cool $45,000 each.
—Maliya Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Emily Bavar, editor of the newspaper’s Florida Magazine, had face-to-face denials from Disney, but also stacks of clues from him that suggested otherwise.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
This recipe stacks smoky sausage and hash browns on a buttery biscuit, which is finished with a tangy pepper sauce.
—Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
At the end of lunch, the entire crew scoops their leftover food into a compost bin, and then neatly stacks their containers on top of each others.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
Instead of playing Tetris with all the food storage containers in your fridge and freezer, invest in a set that stacks nicely.
—Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2026
The ShackBurger stacks a quarter pound patty, American cheese, lettuce, tomato and ShackSauce.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
Freestore stacks all that inventory to the ceiling in its giant distribution center in the west side neighborhood of Riverside.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Dec. 2025
The lamp stacks out to the far sides appear much the same as before, albeit with rectangles replacing the angled polygons at the lowest level.
—New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025
Either way, the offense needs to be able to adapt, just like when an opposing team stacks the box against Rico Dowdle or Chuba Hubbard.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Nov. 2025
Noun
The instrumental snippets are accessed — in old-fashioned CD-ROM hover-and-click style — by clicking on band posters or photographs pictured as being taped or otherwise affixed to a wall in a bedroom with a guitar, stacks of CDs and some dirty clothes.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
And it was provided only old paper maps and stacks of interment cards that listed names, dates and funeral homes.
—Robbyn Abbitt, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
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
Atwood has stacks of research for her novels in these archives.
—Will Croxton, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
Its customer base consists primarily of legacy businesses that operate outdated backend technology stacks, including large banks, telecom companies and even the Department of Defense.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
The table below stacks the 15 modern-era finalists by Pro Football Reference’s Hall of Fame Monitor, which attempts to project the likelihood of enshrinement using Pro Bowls, All-Pros, championships, statistical milestones and its own proprietary metric, Approximate Value (AV).
—Mike Sando, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
In a back room away from the fray, employees took inventory amid stacks of cardboard boxes filled with silver — worth a cool $45,000 each.
—Maliya Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Emily Bavar, editor of the newspaper’s Florida Magazine, had face-to-face denials from Disney, but also stacks of clues from him that suggested otherwise.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
Verb
Casting two of the most smoldering contemporary actors on the planet clearly stacks the deck, and carries on the long tradition of pairing a dashing figure of brooding handsomeness (Laurence Olivier, Ralph Fiennes) with a breathless screen beauty (Merle Oberon, Juliette Binoche).
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
This recipe stacks smoky sausage and hash browns on a buttery biscuit, which is finished with a tangy pepper sauce.
—Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
At the end of lunch, the entire crew scoops their leftover food into a compost bin, and then neatly stacks their containers on top of each others.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
Instead of playing Tetris with all the food storage containers in your fridge and freezer, invest in a set that stacks nicely.
—Bridget Reed Morawski, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2026
The ShackBurger stacks a quarter pound patty, American cheese, lettuce, tomato and ShackSauce.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
Freestore stacks all that inventory to the ceiling in its giant distribution center in the west side neighborhood of Riverside.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Dec. 2025
The lamp stacks out to the far sides appear much the same as before, albeit with rectangles replacing the angled polygons at the lowest level.
—New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025
Either way, the offense needs to be able to adapt, just like when an opposing team stacks the box against Rico Dowdle or Chuba Hubbard.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stacks
Noun
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Autonomous aircraft can move smaller loads more discreetly.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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For larger loads, the company recommends using two tiles.—
Joseph Erbentraut,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Feb. 2026
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These piles will be more durable, Yung said, because they are composed of larger trees, some of which have 12-inch diameter trunks.—
Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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Burn piles sit close to the road, left during mitigation efforts by Denver Mountain Parks, which owns a lot of land in the area.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In truth, their nonstop flowers result in tons of seeds that go everywhere, or their toughness is actually thanks to rampant growth that threatens to smother every living thing in a 10-foot radius.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Feb. 2026
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There’s tons of sizes and lengths available, too.—
Kaitlin Clapinski,
InStyle,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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At least three people died and nearly two dozen others were injured after a building used as temporary lodgings for workers caught fire early Friday in a suburb of Hungary's capital, authorities said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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The state’s biggest cities historically benefit greatly, but the funding requests reach dozens of municipalities in all corners of the state.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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Other companies, including Amazon, Meta, and Pinterest — all of which have made major investments in AI — have recently announced plans to cut significant chunks of their workforce, indicating even more troubling days ahead.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
5 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, some emergency routes have huge mountains of snowy ice chunks obstructing more than one lane of the road because the snowplows could not move the snow to the side of the road due to all of the bike lane obstacles .—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Stars use fusion to generate hundreds of times the energy stored even gravitationally.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
16 Feb. 2026
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The Game and Fish Commission created the structures from hundreds of invasive red cedars cut from Lake Ouachita's shoreline.—
Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Plenty of food chains operating in Indiana have deals or limited-time menu items to accommodate your diet.—
Cheryl V. Jackson,
IndyStar,
18 Feb. 2026
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Those deals have come during a wave of complaints and protests from players about the effects of sports gambling and as several players have been indicted as part of a federal investigation into a betting ring that allegedly traded on insider information.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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So, chocolate, orgasms, limerence, and heroin may all depend on the same little bundles of cells to evoke their fundamental sensation of pleasure.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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And if that’s not enough, couples can score incredible value with 2-bike bundles too!—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Stacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stacks. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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