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Recent Examples of amass McGovern shared his school drop off hack in a reel on Instagram, which has gone viral, amassing over 120,000 views. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 The results confirm what the folks at Prime Video experienced when S3 of TSITP amassed 70M viewers globally in its first 70 days, a 65% jump from S2 over the same time frame. Tom Tapp, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025 Within days, the video went viral, amassing nearly one million views and over 3,600 comments. Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025 Rather than eschewing soft power, though, Russia began amassing its own. Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for amass
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  • The raw material for the inflation report - the price checks on hundreds of goods and services around the country - was collected in September.
    NPR, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The farmer, his son and grandson were still collecting mink, with more than a dozen live traps deployed and checked routinely, Hobbs said.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
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  • When exposure occurs through food or drinking water, cesium-137 can accumulate in the body and increase the risk of cancer due to its DNA-damaging properties.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • When nesting under your porch or deck or in a crawlspace, chimney, or attic, raccoon waste will accumulate and cause odors.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • One of them said that the freshmen class should gather at the YMCA building at midnight to practice yells before the game against Texas on the following day.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Accompanying the film screenings around the world, cinema foyers carried installations and themed message walls, and also offered dancefloors and gathering spaces for BTS fans to come together.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
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  • Among them are the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the Sandia National Laboratories in California and New Mexico, the Los Alamos National Laboratory—central to nuclear weapons design—in New Mexico and the Pantex Plant in Texas, where warheads are assembled and dismantled.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The first round recommendations were drawn up by the Statewide K-12 Graduation Council, assembled by the governor to address the issue in the wake of last year’s election.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • For instance, Gnomo Palomo, a Spanish language video series about a GoPro-wearing gnome embarking on magical adventures, has garnered hundreds of thousands of likes and followers in the last four months alone.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Moreover, in the nineteenth century, instead of garnering global applause, Haiti’s insistence on remaining free and independent consistently brought punishment, most aggressively, by France.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Amass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amass. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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