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as in assemblage
a body of people come together in one place
the usual assembly of early morning commuters waiting at the train station
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as in congregation
a body of persons gathered for religious worship
the preacher addressed the assembly in somber tones
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as in meeting
a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose
attendance at the awards assembly is mandatory
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Recent Examples of assembly
For the project, titled R100, all parts of the manufacturing and design process had to be done within a 100-kilometer (about 62-mile) radius, including the collection of post-consumer scrap and the assembly of the final prototypes.
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The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
All of their vehicles sold in the U.S. have final assembly in the country.
—Michael Wayland, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
If Mexican and Canadian assembly plants shut down due to lost access to the US market, that will affect US suppliers sending parts to those plants.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
The Sportatorium, which over the past two decades played host to everything from Grateful Dead concerts and Striker soccer matches to Jehovah’s Witness assemblies, closed its doors Oct. 21, 1988, with the twang of a country music concert.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
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The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
All of their vehicles sold in the U.S. have final assembly in the country.
—Michael Wayland, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
If Mexican and Canadian assembly plants shut down due to lost access to the US market, that will affect US suppliers sending parts to those plants.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
The Sportatorium, which over the past two decades played host to everything from Grateful Dead concerts and Striker soccer matches to Jehovah’s Witness assemblies, closed its doors Oct. 21, 1988, with the twang of a country music concert.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assembly
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The result is an assemblage of sorts where blue-footed boobies, coral reefs and even bat guano play a leading role, illustrating the ways nonhuman actors and their attendant ecologies have survived human predation.—
Elizabeth Rush,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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What made sense for Scholl was assemblage, putting everyday items together to create something new.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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Clergy such as Ruiz, who arrived to the United States as a teen, are now shepherding their congregations through the fear of such crackdowns.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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The air is thick, the landscape breathtaking, and Ryan Coogler drops us in the middle of it all as a young Sammie (Miles Caton) wanders, haunted, into his preacher father's congregation.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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An Arkansas House of Representatives committee voted down on Wednesday a bill that would define a public meeting as when more than two members of a state or local governing board meet.—
Josh Snyder,
Arkansas Online,
10 Apr. 2025
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What to know Trump put pressure on Republicans to pass the bill during a Tuesday meeting with lawmakers.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
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Noland spoke last week at a conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.—
Dian Zhang,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2025
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Biden, who has largely avoided the public eye since leaving the White House in January, spoke in Chicago at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
16 Apr. 2025
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The company partners with senior living centers, churches, and insurance providers to offer on-site classes, giving accessibility to those who may not have the resources or mobility to visit a gym.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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The latter featured Delroy Lindo in an astonishing Broadway performance as a man battling the internalized power and anguish of the blues and the church.—
Armond White,
National Review,
18 Apr. 2025
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Expect to see even more creativity with meal kits, prepared foods and smaller-scale dishes tailored specifically for holiday gatherings.—
Food Drink Life,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2025
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That’s because like many new boutique hotels, the lobby of the Moxy is designed more as a gathering place than one of arrival.—
Will McGough,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Garland shared the duo’s resolute ethic while appearing at a Los Angeles panel alongside Mendoza (and D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai, who portrays Mendoza with a convincing stoicism that arose from his inquiries into the concerted memories of the SEAL’s battle mates).—
Fred Schruers,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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Each gallery will also get a new introductory panel with information about the art, as well as the design and architecture of the National Gallery itself.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Apr. 2025
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For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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And while in many categories a Super Bowl ad is no proof of the entrepreneurial, in January, Horwood and her team broke company and category conventions with a campaign to raise awareness and drive screenings for breast cancer.—
Seth Matlins,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Assembly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assembly. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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