piles

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People she met included a widow estranged from her adult children over financial woes, who stored piles of their belongings at their mother's home.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Trucks wobbling under piles of amber-colored globules would make the twice-daily trek from Al-Nahud, a town 120 miles west of Obeid and an agricultural hub for the most prized variety of gum arabic, Hashab.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

According to local media, the Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility was also the scene of a major fire in July 2023, when piles of wood at the site burned for days.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

And they raised enormous piles of cash—sometimes in the hundreds of millions of dollars—in a way that made them seem more like tech startups than companies hawking retail consumer goods.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Great-Uncle Jim left huge piles of junk all over the yard, among the big trees and behind the buildings.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones