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  • a variation of bail.
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bale

[bayl] / beɪl /
NOUN
bunch
Synonyms


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It is now able to bale its own aluminum, cardboard, and other materials used and discarded at the arena from event days and gets a rebate from Waste Management for taking it off their hands.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

To visualize microscopic asbestos fibers in talcum powder, he brought a bale of hay into a courtroom and dropped a needle into the blades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

She changed course and will now be going with a construction method known as straw bale, which typically entails stacking bales of straw to form walls that are coated with plaster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

Now, the fields are green again, but as Mr Curtis takes me out in his tractor, he has a bale of silage on the front.

From BBC ● May 29, 2024

Trying to appear unhurried, he went back to the floor by way of the straw bale and crossed over the door.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

"The pretence is that baled tyres are being sent to India and then shredded and granulated in a factory very similar to ours," explains Mr Mason.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025

He baled hay, trimmed Christmas trees and otherwise worked on his family’s farm.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

Before Amazon, this “secondary packaging” was broken down and baled by grocers and big box stores without consumers ever clapping eyes on it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

If your balcony is on the breezy side, you can protect your plants by putting them behind tightly baled straw, or you can create a windbreak by securing burlap to the railing.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

After Palestine, when the cotton was in, baled and spoken for, Joe got married and worked even harder.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

The Florida Panthers professional hockey team bought its own baling machine last year, a $30,000 investment that also included two shipping containers.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

He learned the ropes early and spent his childhood cleaning grain bins, baling hay and feeding the livestock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

"We got some really good ones of raking up and baling," Miss Burke said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

As a young man in the 1980s, Jay, a farm boy with a golden tan and muscles chiseled from hay baling and house building, went to Washington to visit a friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

“You in Hob now,” Moses told Cora one afternoon when she came in from helping with the baling.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead


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