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ingathering

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verb

present participle of ingather
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Noun
  • And since the remaining liquid, called brine, still contains a decent amount of water, NASA built a brine processor assembly (BPA) to extract it.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Per Reuters, the brigade confirmed the man had been working on the assembly of a stage for a ​public concert featuring Shakira.
    Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Restore Our Roads is now gathering signatures for Initiative 175, which would cement the road-spending requirement into the state’s constitution.
    Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The denim style—defined by its super wide leg and high waist—has been sitting forgotten in the back of the closet, gathering dust the past few seasons.
    Ángela Belda, Glamour, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Across town at MoCA is another of the exhibition’s defining works, Abigail DeVille’s conceptually taut assemblage Deo Vindice (Orion’s Cabinet), 2025.
    Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The later galleries are spent building up to Duchamp’s final work, Étant donnés (1966), an assemblage in which a peephole in a shut door reveals a nude woman laying on a hill.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Double-A manager Chad Epperson will take over as interim third base coach and WooSox hitting coach Collin Hetzler has been elevated to the big league staff, but beyond that Breslow said more additions will be made and that Tracy will have a voice in assembling his new staff.
    Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Closing these gaps often requires assembling small and fragmented parcels over time.
    Susan Carr, Sun Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The second floor will include offices for village, police, and community development administrators, as well as staff break rooms and conference spaces.
    Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Your fellow guests are likely to be a mix of local staycationing families on weekends and holidays, and those traveling on business or attending events during the week in the hotel’s conference facilities.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Philadelphia Eagles drafted ninth, 10th, 13th, 21st, 22nd and 30th, collecting stalwarts such as nose tackle Jalen Carter, receiver DaVonta Smith and cornerback Quinyon Mitchell and defensive starters Jordan Davis and Nolan Smith.
    Tim Graham, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Bringing the exhibition — and collecting habits — into the present are works by artists who are defining current trends in photography.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Aurelien Tchouameni, a player already at Real, is also being discussed in United meetings.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • During their first meeting, at Mar-a-Lago, in 2017, Xi famously learned about American strikes on Syria.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • So clustering your plants makes your space look better and supports pollinators.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Oakland County’s wealth isn’t evenly shared On this index, Oakland County’s communities are spread across the full socioeconomic range rather than clustering entirely at the top.
    Grigoris Argeros, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
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“Ingathering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/ingathering. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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