sand pile
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Forbes explains how so many vortices might all unpin at once: “Like dropping sand onto a sand pile — nothing really happens until … you get a whole avalanche.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 18, 2023
By noon, only a third of the sand pile remained.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2020
In addition to earlier dredging, crews have worked to move the stamp sand pile at the original deposit site back from the shoreline at Gay.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
The approach, with roots in the 18th century, describes the structure of networks of discrete, interacting parts, be they friends linked on social media or grains in a sand pile.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 11, 2019
In the next, refreshments were over; and some of the youngsters slept while others were starting large engineering projects upon the sand pile.
From Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston
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