stack
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William Blair analyst Andrew Jeffrey wrote last month that PayPal’s “value proposition and tech stack lag disruptive competitors.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Scientists broadly agree that the globalized weather impacts of El Nino stack on top of climate change -- exacerbating rainfall in some places, drought and heat in others.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
As we’ll see, it’s a story including a Nobel Prize winner, a book and some claims that don’t quite stack up.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
That was the small revelation buried inside my stack of bargain kielbasa: perhaps I didn’t need to just prep meals.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Chip reached into the mailbox and pulled out a thick stack of letters and flyers.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Jury-rigging their electricity and doting on a dog named Jasper, they pass the time playing poker with stacks of now-useless greenbacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
When Victoria Gordon arrives at a client's house, she can be met with huge piles of clothes, stacks of unwashed dishes and badly blocked toilets.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Test your knowledge of the week’s big stories and see how your score stacks up against Slate’s VP of brand and communications, Katie Rayford.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
From here, Robert carefully stacks a Jenga tower of suspense-laden set pieces and surprisingly moving family drama, without so much as letting the structure teeter.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Weapons glistened amid stacks of helmets; woven baskets held brooches, collar-pieces, and chains.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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It would be easy to look at all of this — the card tables, homemade jingles, wagons stacked with brightly colored boxes — and see only an exceptionally cute American ritual.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
With two convictions and nearly $1 billion in damages already stacked up, Meta will face another trial starting this week about alleged harms to children in a case brought by four US states.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Tail Town’s main room is filled with stacked cat beds, an exercise wheel, two huge rectangular storage benches sprinkled with doughnut-shaped beds, and cat-themed art on the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
At facilities in Clifton, N.J., a laboratory table that normally sits empty is stacked six vials high with hundreds of feces samples, and scientists and technicians are working overtime to manage the brown onslaught.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
And then we saw something else, stacked in the far corner, a pile of old wooden benches.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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But investing is about stacking probabilities in your favor.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Early this month, a dejected Betts had as tough a time explaining to reporters why, despite hitting the ball hard and stacking disciplined at-bats, he’d had little to show for it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
But training them to safely perform household tasks like ironing or stacking the dishwasher is proving difficult and costly.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
WSJ’s 2026 layoffs tracker shows how this year’s job cuts are stacking up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The other men had gone back to swabbing out the dories, stacking them neatly one inside the next.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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