"pile-on" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Deverbal from pile on",
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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from pile on.",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2019 November 19, Brigid Delaney, “It's the era of the Twitter pile-on. Isn't there something healthier we can do with our rage?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "We are in a time of never-ending Twitter pile-ons. Sometimes the criticism is warranted: Twitter can be a place for marginalised voices to amplify or bring attention to an injustice they have suffered.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 6, Marie O'Halloran, “Social media ‘pile on’ against Sinn Féin critics does not aid party, Ó Broin says”, in The Irish Times",
          "text": "A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 18, Michelle Goldberg, “Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Online, there’s a level of industrial-scale bullying directed at Heard that puts all previous social media pile-ons to shame.",
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      "glosses": [
        "An argument or fight in which one side is greatly advantaged by being more numerous or more closely allied than the other side."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "pile-up"
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  "word": "pile-on"
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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from pile on.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pile-ons",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 19, Brigid Delaney, “It's the era of the Twitter pile-on. Isn't there something healthier we can do with our rage?”, in The Guardian",
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        },
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          "ref": "2020 December 6, Marie O'Halloran, “Social media ‘pile on’ against Sinn Féin critics does not aid party, Ó Broin says”, in The Irish Times",
          "text": "A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2022 May 18, Michelle Goldberg, “Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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