- a variation of bail.
bale
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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
“Well, sir, but farmin’s for bigger stakes, Grandpa. A readymade dress or a can of salmon ain’t near as big as a bale of cotton or a cow.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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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
At its height, huge flames tore through the former steel factory, which housed a mountain of baled waste, and thick plumes of black, acrid smoke billowed above the building's skeleton.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 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
Both recalled joining the adults as they baled hay for Mr. Scoggins’s father, and breaking for midday dinner.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
After Palestine, when the cotton was in, baled and spoken for, Joe got married and worked even harder.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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Eventually, all these materials wind up at one of four baling machines that compress them into giant blocks, which then get moved around the facility’s storage area by crew-operated forklifts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
In a noticeable moment from “Cow,” a farmer baling hay strikes his pitchfork against a stone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
S&W Atlas Iron & Metal had processed scrap metal in Watts since 1949, shredding and baling aluminum cans, steel rims and copper wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
"We got some really good ones of raking up and baling," Miss Burke said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
He could often be found baling hay and chopping wood at his country home on Long Island, refusing to let any physical limitations get in his way.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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