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stack

[stak] / stæk /




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He opens a folder and takes out a stack of large photographs: portraits of prisoners.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

For nearly five decades, they served up diner classics like steak and eggs and a hearty stack of pancakes while infusing the meals with touches that showcased their Chinese heritage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

The broader revenue-tech stack is undergoing a similar shakeout.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

“We are the only company that has the full stack and we’re world-class at every layer from infrastructure to cloud to frontier models to AI-first applications,” Hassabis said in the statement.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

He’d already eaten five eggs and a half dozen strips of bacon, and he was still working on a stack of pancakes tall enough to sit on.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Done in that order, the QCD satisfies part of the RMD without adding a dollar to AGI, leaving more headroom under the Medicare surcharge tier before conversion income stacks.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Then they spend hours gliding downstream past scenery that might as well be a Northern California highlight reel: vineyards, redwood forests and eventually a beach scene full of driftwood and sea stacks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Amid rows of camp beds and stacks of food supplies at a makeshift shelter in Bordeaux, thousands of tourists and locals try to regain their composure after fleeing wildfires sweeping through southwest France.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

“The phone hasn’t stopped ringing,” said Andrés Rivero, a Miami-based attorney dealing with stacks of these claims.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

His air raid warden’s helmet sits beside the stacks of papers.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

That means that for consumers, the total cost burden is likely to increase even if the tariff rates don’t change – because the new tariffs will be stacked on older ones.

From Salon Aug. 16, 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

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

The odds were stacked against Coleman and his players, lengthening further when Radja Nainggolan's thunderous long-range strike gave Belgium an early lead.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Great heaps of knitting were folded and stacked all around.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

They “had to find workarounds, whether through open-sourcing software, stacking less powerful and cheaper local chips, investing more in China’s electricity grid.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

More than a century ago, psychologist Wolfgang Köhler showed that chimpanzees could suddenly solve unfamiliar problems by combining objects in new ways, such as stacking boxes to reach a banana hanging overhead.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

That enabled stacking to become a core part of founders’ early plans, and it will constrain the administration’s ability to combat stacking.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

The three girls sat outside in the yard until one of the women assigned them the task of washing glasses and stacking plates on the table.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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