1
: a portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages (as in warehouses, factories, or vehicles)
2
: a wooden flat-bladed instrument
3
: a lever or surface in a timepiece that receives an impulse from the escapement wheel and imparts motion to a balance or pendulum
1
: a straw-filled tick or mattress
2
: a small, hard, or temporary bed
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Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 21 May 2025
Packaging materials that can be salvaged like pallets, cardboard, glass and cans are also recycled, said Feldman, the Green Era CEO.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2025
Investigators say the unnamed teen helped Kling set the pallets on fire, left the area before fully extinguishing the flames and lied to law enforcement about how the fire started.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
On the night of April 21, Kling picked up his friends and then took multiple wooden pallets, which were outside of a recycling center, and drove to a wooded area, prosecutors said at Kling's detention hearing Friday.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 2 May 2025
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Feeding South Florida move, load and stack pallets of food and household goods onto trucks.
—Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 21 May 2025
Packaging materials that can be salvaged like pallets, cardboard, glass and cans are also recycled, said Feldman, the Green Era CEO.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2025
Investigators say the unnamed teen helped Kling set the pallets on fire, left the area before fully extinguishing the flames and lied to law enforcement about how the fire started.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
On the night of April 21, Kling picked up his friends and then took multiple wooden pallets, which were outside of a recycling center, and drove to a wooded area, prosecutors said at Kling's detention hearing Friday.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 2 May 2025
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“Pallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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