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bale

[bayl] / beɪl /
NOUN
bunch
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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

Minnesota is now moving toward allowing hempcrete and straw bale in all residential construction.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 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

A half-used bale of straw stood against it—no doubt clean bedding which, in the dry weather, had not been put back under cover.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

They continue to arrive from the US, Canada, Europe and Asia, baled up in shipping containers.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

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

Mr. Gilchrist said he still baled hay himself.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2019

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

In a noticeable moment from “Cow,” a farmer baling hay strikes his pitchfork against a stone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

"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

A man collected this waste paper and took it away for baling.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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