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as in assembly
a body of people come together in one place
the President spoke before the gathering of student leaders
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as in meeting
a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose
attended a gathering for descendants of people who came to America on the Mayflower
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as in accumulation
a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time
a great gathering of dust under the bed
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as in brewing
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as in collecting
to bring together in one body or place
he gathered the leftovers from the table and gave them to the dog let's gather the students and have them line up on the playground before going in from recess
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as in harvesting
to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use
late summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter
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as in converging
to come together into one body or place
a crowd gathered around the street musician ask the faculty to gather in the lounge for the meeting
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as in deriving
to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information
I gather that, since you are back so early, she didn't want to see you?
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as in accumulating
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
the newspapers that had been allowed to gather on the front doorstep told thieves that the family was away on vacation
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as in gaining
to gradually increase in
the movement gathered force as election day neared
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as in summoning
to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers
gathered the strength to finish the marathon
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Recent Examples of gathering
Moriah Thomas, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
On Saturday, the protests in Michigan coincided with the gathering of the state's Republican Party delegates at the Vibe Credit Union Showplace in Novi to endorse statewide candidates for a November election.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 28 Mar. 2026
CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
Now everyone plays on their phones, and game nights are uncommon — but in 1996, gathering around a table with family or friends for a round of something competitive was a regular occurrence.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The Iranian diaspora has made its presence felt throughout the three-day gathering, chanting in the convention center halls, sometimes arm-in-arm with the overwhelmingly pro-Trump crowd, and cheering on speakers who support toppling the regime.
—Moriah Thomas, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
On Saturday, the protests in Michigan coincided with the gathering of the state's Republican Party delegates at the Vibe Credit Union Showplace in Novi to endorse statewide candidates for a November election.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
Oziyah Sellers scored 11 points for Pitino's gathering Red Storm (29-6), who have won 20 of 21 since early January in increasingly impressive fashion.
—CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
Now everyone plays on their phones, and game nights are uncommon — but in 1996, gathering around a table with family or friends for a round of something competitive was a regular occurrence.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gathering
Noun
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Rather than focusing on complex assembly tasks, the deployment currently targets specific industrial activities such as material handling and intra-logistics, where humanoid mobility and flexibility can be used in existing factory layouts.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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Each example comprises 475 components and requires more than 440 hours of assembly and finishing alone.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
23 Mar. 2026
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Salam said after an emergency Cabinet meeting in early March that only the state should decide on matters of war and peace and called on security agencies to prevent the firing of missiles or drones from Lebanon and detain those behind the launch.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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Ruperti, who arrived at the meeting with a security detail, is a Venezuelan Italian shipping magnate who trades in petroleum coke.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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For the second time in less than a week, Luka Doncic faces a one-game suspension because of technical foul accumulation.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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During this critical supply-accumulation phase, my primary focus as an engineer shifts to monitoring the tank top — the absolute maximum safe operating capacity of a storage hub.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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But this bet will face its most serious test in the brewing Republican presidential primary.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
5 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Panels on collecting and arts institutions in the desert will feature speakers including Jenny Gil, executive director of Desert X, the biennial exhibition of large-scale artworks installed across the Coachella Valley and in AlUla, Saudi Arabia.—
Jane Horowitz,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2026
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When Laettner made his shot in Philadelphia, sinking a turnaround shot after collecting a long baseball throw from Grant Hill, the opponent was Kentucky.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Their peers in the south, meanwhile, are busy harvesting crops before the winter sets in.—
Chloe Taylor,Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2026
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Immigrants in the 1920s discovered the abalone and started harvesting them.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
14 Mar. 2026
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Several converging factors are positioning spatial computing as a more commercially viable and investor-relevant technology area.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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Multiple forces are converging in ways that defy easy fixes — and the old playbook of buying the dip is far from guaranteed to work.—
Denitsa Tsekova,
Bloomberg,
10 Mar. 2026
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The very legitimacy of deriving general principles from the particulars of experience can never be established from experience without already having the principle in hand.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Large language models represent the first technology capable of analyzing, contextualizing and deriving insights from this avalanche of information.—
Sahar Hashmi,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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“Gathering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gathering. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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