pileup

Example Sentences

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Private equity’s pileup of unsold investments—just shy of 33,000 companies globally worth more than $3 trillion—has hamstrung fundraising and strained relations with fund investors waiting to get money back.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

And so there has been a pileup of ignominy referred to a busier-than-ever Ethics Committee.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

In my family, birthdays arrive in a cheerful pileup.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026

The advantages are obvious: The method could be used for future data storage and for fast data transmission at terahertz rates without the systems being slowed down by the pileup of heat.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

At one end of the cove, an enormous pileup of wreckage from years of storms provided a steady supply of firewood: block and tackle, hatch gratings, spars, masts, lockers.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong