1
as in loads
a considerable amount
earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay
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2
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
Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Tyla had aptly worn stacks of the jewelry on the VMAs carpet the night before, along with a Chanel minidress.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
Aerial footage captured by ABC News' Los Angeles station, KABC, showed the Mississippi tilting to one side after two stacks of containers collapsed.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
Lighthouse station California’s Central Coast may no longer have active volcanoes, but there is plenty of evidence of ancient volcanic activity, from plugs like Morro Rock (the hardened interior of a former volcano) to stacks (islands formed from eroded volcanic rock).
—A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Sweet Martha’s cookies are baked to order, then served warm in precariously tall stacks, teetering out of a paper cup, or, better yet, the stand’s signature plastic bucket, which gets loaded with about four dozen cookies despite fitting only three dozen.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Store stacks of paper napkins, cups, and plates that have been opened in a pantry.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
In the conflict between Hobbes and Rousseau, between visions of primordial humankind as inherently brutal or inherently peaceful, Tsangari stacks the dramatic deck in favor of benign and placid human nature.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Each social media post or podcast episode is a brick that stacks on top of the others.
—Mike Hodgkinson, Big Think, 4 Aug. 2025
This stacks growth on top of a 63 percent increase in trades for the first half of 2024 from the first half of 2023.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
Cadence has tools for data center design as well as its traditional semiconductor design and in semiconductors their tools can also work with 3D stacks of die and include Multiphysics digital twin simulation.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Tyla had aptly worn stacks of the jewelry on the VMAs carpet the night before, along with a Chanel minidress.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
Aerial footage captured by ABC News' Los Angeles station, KABC, showed the Mississippi tilting to one side after two stacks of containers collapsed.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
Lighthouse station California’s Central Coast may no longer have active volcanoes, but there is plenty of evidence of ancient volcanic activity, from plugs like Morro Rock (the hardened interior of a former volcano) to stacks (islands formed from eroded volcanic rock).
—A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Sweet Martha’s cookies are baked to order, then served warm in precariously tall stacks, teetering out of a paper cup, or, better yet, the stand’s signature plastic bucket, which gets loaded with about four dozen cookies despite fitting only three dozen.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Store stacks of paper napkins, cups, and plates that have been opened in a pantry.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
Behind its all-glass façade, the home stacks four bedrooms and five baths around an elevator core.
—Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
In the conflict between Hobbes and Rousseau, between visions of primordial humankind as inherently brutal or inherently peaceful, Tsangari stacks the dramatic deck in favor of benign and placid human nature.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Each social media post or podcast episode is a brick that stacks on top of the others.
—Mike Hodgkinson, Big Think, 4 Aug. 2025
This stacks growth on top of a 63 percent increase in trades for the first half of 2024 from the first half of 2023.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stacks
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It’s finished in a beautiful coat of light green and has loads of chrome trim and a black roof.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
12 Sep. 2025
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There’s a lot of tradesmen, but songwriters… There’s not loads of them.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Use jig and pigs 18 to 25 feet deep along brush piles or main lake points with a gradual slope.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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One makes big plays at big moments, the other piles up a steady stream of little plays that lead to those big plays.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
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The team recently achieved the production of up to 10 tons of liquid air per day, representing a significant milestone in advancing the technology toward large-scale commercial viability.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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While that marked the lowest annual increase in 10 years, more than 170 million tons of new LNG supply are set to be available by 2030 in service of burgeoning global power demand, the energy major noted in its latest market assessment.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Filled with warm spices, tender chunks of fruit, and pecans, and topped with a caramel glaze, Apple Dapple Cake will put you in a fall state of mind—even if the weather isn’t quite there yet.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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To be sure, the last few years have been more challenging, with Gucci rapidly losing momentum — and Kering’s debt load swelling after an acquisition spree that included Creed, Maui Jim, a 30 percent stake in Valentino, and large chunks of prime real estate.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Google Flights’ 2025 Travel Trends pinpoint the exact window for deals, pulling and tracking data from multiple airlines and travel agencies.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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The fact that Robertson reportedly asked for team assistance to pursue no-show endorsement deals at that time, only to find them later with Aspiration during Leonard’s Clippers tenure, sets the kind of backdrop that only hurts their case at the moment.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Cameco builds nuclear fuel bundles for reactors and has a 49% stake in Global Laser Enrichment, a company that uses third-generation enrichment technology.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
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Synergistic alignment involves braiding the strategies for adapting to single trend-factors into new, vastly superior bundles.—
Jerry Cahn,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That backup has since grown into a hundreds-strong campaign to refute the DHS allegations, which supporters call a resurgence of anti-Muslim fearmongering that has persisted across party lines since the 9/11 attacks 24 years ago this month.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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The signatories — which included the likes of EV manufacturers Volvo and Polestar, as well as material suppliers, battery manufacturers and grid operators — said the introduction of the target had already triggered hundreds of billions of euros in new investment.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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The project demands about 500,000 cubic meters of concrete and 80,000 tons of steel – material quantities that dwarf most construction projects globally.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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For now, limited quantities of the handbags are available exclusively in-person at select Alo stores, showcasing the high-end craftsmanship, which deserves to be discovered firsthand through touch and experience.—
Kristina Rutkowski,
Vogue,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Stacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stacks. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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