stack
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“The brick is like a 3-D checkerboard,” he said, explaining that it’s made up of a patchwork of blocks and open chambers with small passages throughout the stack for the heat to bounce around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Meanwhile, Eric pulls them around on a rug he rigged as a magic carpet and helps stack the blocks into towers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
And how does that stack up against how much you are earning?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
It starts, of course, with their ridiculously large stack of money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Her friend is carrying a stack of newspapers; now she flies around the store, pressing copies into shoppers’ hands, depositing them on top of the glass cases.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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O'Connor and Bailey are scaling up their work, testing larger stacks of printed cells to see how the technology may be applied to industry.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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
The marketplace also offers roof stacks, zip-on seat covers and stereos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
In stacks of four, so 240 people sleeping here.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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A Spain side stacked with star names have sneaked their way into the World Cup final, where they ultimately triumph in a bruising encounter against the Netherlands with an extra-time Andres Iniesta winner.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Lauer said Giftory's roughly 30 employees get a premium AI subscription costing about $200 a month -- "peanuts" stacked against an average salary of $100,000 a year, and cheap enough to make offshoring "uncompetitive."
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
They are raising concerns that, stacked together, they leave a more lasting imprint on how households and businesses set wages and prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Still, the game’s result seemed minuscule when stacked against Alfonso’s personal tragedy and the earthquake’s destruction in Venezuela.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Indeed, the dining hall looked more like a junk shop now, with all the items stacked in piles—there were Bunsen burners, dirty socks, tinned herring, a box of salt....
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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
"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
The men spent that first day digging foxholes, filling and stacking sandbags to protect their positions.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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