stacking
/ (ˈstækɪŋ) /
the arrangement of aircraft traffic in busy flight lanes, esp while waiting to land at an airport, with a minimum vertical separation for safety of 1000 feet below 29 000 feet and 2000 feet above 29 000 feet
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How to use stacking in a sentence
These samples are biased, stacking the deck in favor of a connection between mental disorder and violence.
stacking my mess of chips, I looked down a third time and saw two kings ... two majestic kings.
World Series of Poker: How Jonathan Miller Almost Won It All (Really) | Jonathan Miller | July 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey are clearly trying to take over the Armed Forces by stacking its junior cadres with their own members.
Morsi-less: Are Egyptians Done with the Muslim Brothers? | Hussein Ibish | July 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA novelist escapes to the tropics after tragedies begin stacking up at home.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Feb. 4, 2013 | Jimmy So, G. Clay Whittaker, Tunku Varadarajan | February 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSecond, the right will be hitting Crowley hard, on that and other matters, like allegedly stacking the questions.
The Day-After Spin: Will Any Conservatives Admit Their Guy Lost? | Michael Tomasky | October 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The tired waiters are putting up the shutters of the smaller cafés and stacking up the chairs.
The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley SmithSoldiers were already stacking up the chairs ready for the clearance of the gymnasium for the morrow.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le QueuxThere is no shocking, no stacking or housing: all in one operation, the grain is made ready for market.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail | Ezra MeekerBeyond that fifty-yard stream lay the enemy, reported now to be stacking up drive impedimenta.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon WilsonBut finally he got tired of his drawer-opening and lamp-testing and towel-stacking, and escorted me up to the twelfth.
Highways in Hiding | George Oliver Smith
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