stack
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He then explained that by swiping left, calls are placed in the stack requiring further triage by a nurse or paramedic, but a swipe right means they're in the wait for an ambulance.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Jamal has ceased all medication, including the fertility stack, under Jayasena's advice.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The future rests on a stack of wild cards, importantly in the halls of the Kremlin itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Inside a factory alongside Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley, a forklift delivered a stack of precut lumber to two waiting carpenters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
I fold the comforter, turn the pillow to the clean side, and make a neat stack.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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The horizon is dominated by cranes, bulk carriers and container stacks – the visible parts of a vast energy and chemicals hub.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
There’s nothing about it in New York City’s municipal archives or the stacks of the Queens Historical Society.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Rather than placing memory beside the processor across an interposer, Qualcomm stacks it on top of the compute in a 3D design, which it says cuts the energy required to move data.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
There were just stacks of crates and boxes, which is amazing — it was very cool to just see statues half unpacked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
He took no interest in the stacks of books that Regina, an avid reader, always had in the house.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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My grandparents never asked whether the deck was stacked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Eventually, one too many social gaffes have stacked up into a rickety pile, and Joe can’t help but play the Big Bad Wolf.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The clay, most of which is dug from the Humber Estuary, arrives in heavy blocks and is stacked on pallets in the yard at William Blyth, in Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
“This first stacked launch is just the beginning,” AST SpaceMobile CEO Abel Avellan said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Magic said, referring to another hill also well-named because it looked like two whales stacked on top of each other.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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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
"We are stacking up bookings for weeks to come and the inquiries are difficult to keep up with, but creates a lot of business," he added.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
By stacking the orders on top of a funding package and unprecedented equity stakes, Washington has made it clear that quantum computing is a national priority.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
He had worked at Ambiance for nearly five years, first stacking boxes of clothes and then later moving into shipping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
He turned back to Vola, who was cross stacking kindling.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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