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Evidence is piling up that as men do more of the caregiving, violence against women falls.

The empty rubbish and the trash piling up is a metaphor for when there is gridlock.

The reporting errors out of Boston after the marathon blasts are piling up—and so is the finger-wagging on Twitter.

Bills are piling up in an Iowa court case, Heki v. Bachmann, filed by another former Bachmann staffer, Barb Heki.

Texas has racked up a $2.5 trillion state debt, Florida $1.1 trillion; both are still piling up deficits.

Six days of the week he worked, piling up the passing treasures of this world.

Well, we'll simmer down when the turn comes, and though I'm piling up dollars, I'll be thankful.

Big banks of clouds piling up in the northwest told them that they might expect the breeze from that quarter in the morning.

But I'm not much interested in piling up useless money in a resisting bank.

It required all the firmness and tact of Lieutenant Hal to keep the justly enraged Texans from piling up a big slaughter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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