as in rallying
an act of gathering forces together to renew or attempt an effort called for the prompt mobilization of all national resources to combat the deadly epidemic

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Recent Examples of mobilization As part of its demands for a broader ceasefire, the Kremlin readout laid out several tough conditions that Putin had previously insisted on – such as a halt to all foreign military aid and intelligence to Kyiv, and a halt to any Ukrainian mobilization or rearming during that period. Jessie Yeung, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025 As with the New Deal, the substance of these policies rested less with national policy designs than with the aspirations and mobilization of the era’s social movements. Colin Gordon, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025 In addition to winning gains for workers, the strike wave apparently also worked against Republicans at election time by increasing political awareness and voter mobilization. Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2025 This is the way to build up a massive amount of high wage industries, the mobilization to get to a clean economy and provide the rest of the world with those clean technologies and clean industries and clean goods. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mobilization

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“Mobilization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mobilization. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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