ingathering 1 of 2

noun

as in assembly
a body of people come together in one place before an ingathering of local members of the clergy the mayor addressed some of the problems facing the city

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verb

present participle of ingather
as in gathering

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingathering
  1. assembly
  2. gathering
  3. assemblage
  4. assembling
  5. conference
  6. collecting
  7. meeting
  8. clustering
Noun
  • The nearly six-minute film shows how the team combines precision machining, assembly, and repair to accelerate robot development.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
  • It has since been lifted to a vertical position and moved inside the bay alongside three other Ship upper stages still under assembly.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of assembly
Verb
  • Russia's Federal Security Service said the man, who works for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, was suspected of gathering information about Russia's defense capability on behalf of a Japanese intelligence agency.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • While Boeing callously deflects blame for their negligence, a family of one victim finds strength in gathering collective mourning.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of gathering
Noun
  • In Labor of Light (2016), an assemblage of technologies comes together as a kind of altar to the history of video production.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • These are electric cars, which apparently justifies a vaguely techy-sounding alphanumeric assemblage.
    — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of assemblage
Verb
  • When DeSantis took office and began assembling his team, Florida faced the same cultural pressures as the rest of the country.
    — Kimberly Bird, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Ukraine has earned worldwide recognition for its cutting-edge drone industry, designing and assembling systems that have changed modern warfare.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of assembling
Noun
  • Undoubtedly, the biggest blow was the announcement that the kingdom is postponing its flagship investment conference, the Future Investment Initiative, until next year, although no exact date has been set.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Fraschilla has been calling Big 12 basketball for a quarter-century and knows the conference landscape as well as anybody.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of conference
Verb
  • Americans in general did not want the government collecting unified, know-all records of every citizen.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Leaders should also consider how factoring may affect customer relationships, particularly when the factor takes an active role in collecting receivables.
    — Andrew Coon, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of collecting
Noun
  • Every year, Noting’s fan community elects a community board observer, a volunteer who attends the company’s quarterly board meetings and presents customers’ views on products and launches to its directors.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • That same year one of the scientists who first uncovered the existence of GRBs, Ray Klebesadel of the clandestine Los Alamos National Laboratory, gave a talk at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of meeting
Verb
  • But clustering the high-end systems is an investment only a subset of users will ever need to make.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Keeping the molecules fixed within the plastic prevents them from clustering as easily.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of clustering
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