heaps

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Chile imports more sulfuric acid than any other country and uses it to leach copper from huge heaps of ore.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

The site of the fire is still screened off behind white plastic sheets, but in front of it are heaps of flowers and soft toys at a shrine that keeps growing.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

Shares currently fetch just 17-times future earnings for the current fiscal year—cheap for a company with a solid streaming audience and heaps of valuable intellectual property.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

A video he took around 1 p.m. shows bulldozers and other heavy machinery scooping heaps of sediment and moving logs.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

When they had cut enough to make a pile, they slid the cut stalks off the slats, into neat heaps on the ground.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder