heap
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Retail investors love Musk’s companies, and will likely be able to buy a heap of stock at the offering price of $135.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Spoon-feeding this critical bit of dialogue early in the film allows Barker to heap as much violence, trauma and tropes onto Nikki’s character as possible, under the guise of thematic callbacks.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026
The largest is a 281,000-tonne heap of contaminated soil in Northwich, Cheshire, which is one of 11 such sites revealed by a BBC investigation in January.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
On May 4, 1945, at Gunskirchen, a Nazi prison camp in Austria, Edith was found by U.S. soldiers in a heap of people dead or dying.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
I crawled through the opening and landed in a heap on the floor two meters below.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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