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piles up

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You know how it is, you go away for a week and all the work piles up like a big heap of mail holding your front door closed. Ben Croshaw

The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby. Mohammad Emami-Kashani

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up. Dana Spiotta

Does it not move you strangely, the love-bird's cry, tonight when, like the drifting snow, memory piles up on memory? Murasaki Shikibu

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us. Brené Brown

The truth sometimes reminds me of a city buried in sand. As time passes, the sand piles up even thicker, and occasionally it's blown away and what's below is revealed. Haruki Murakami

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