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
Since October, Christie Baron has spent weekends stacking round loaves of her leavened, airy bread onto a cart in her driveway and inviting customers to buy the homemade goodness via the honor system.
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Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Burnick said the new linen layoffs are now stacking on top of the Del Monte closure.
—Nina Burns, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
In practice, early selection becomes an intervention, hoarding resources for the front-runners and stacking the odds against anyone hoping to catch up to them.
—Rachel Barr, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
When expectations, ownership, and metrics are defined, teams move faster, decisions stop stacking at the top, and execution improves not because the CEO pushes harder, but because the organization knows what success looks like.
—Kirk W. McLaren, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
At Dios Habla Hoy church, in south Minneapolis, volunteers were stacking dozens of small bags of flour and other staples that were coming into the church.
—Natasha Korecki, NBC news, 22 Jan. 2026
For maximum efficiency, many cooks use the bottom drawer for stacking flat bakeware or cookware.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Amass a roster in the top five in the sport, typically by stacking blue-chip recruits and developing them.
—David Ubben, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
By stacking these measurements, the researchers reconstructed a three-dimensional map of charge transport with nanoscale resolution, offering a rare look at how electrical pathways form—and break down—inside the material.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Burnick said the new linen layoffs are now stacking on top of the Del Monte closure.
—Nina Burns, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
In practice, early selection becomes an intervention, hoarding resources for the front-runners and stacking the odds against anyone hoping to catch up to them.
—Rachel Barr, Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
When expectations, ownership, and metrics are defined, teams move faster, decisions stop stacking at the top, and execution improves not because the CEO pushes harder, but because the organization knows what success looks like.
—Kirk W. McLaren, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
At Dios Habla Hoy church, in south Minneapolis, volunteers were stacking dozens of small bags of flour and other staples that were coming into the church.
—Natasha Korecki, NBC news, 22 Jan. 2026
For maximum efficiency, many cooks use the bottom drawer for stacking flat bakeware or cookware.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Amass a roster in the top five in the sport, typically by stacking blue-chip recruits and developing them.
—David Ubben, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
By stacking these measurements, the researchers reconstructed a three-dimensional map of charge transport with nanoscale resolution, offering a rare look at how electrical pathways form—and break down—inside the material.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stacking
piling
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Indian stocks are on track for their worst start to a year in a decade, piling pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration to deliver fresh catalysts for economic growth in the upcoming budget.—
Ashutosh Joshi,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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When questions began piling up, detailed public reporting quietly stopped.—
Jennifer Nassour,
Boston Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Stacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stacking. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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