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as in to collect
to bring together in one body or place
amassed a truckload of donations in the course of their canned food drive
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as in to accumulate
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
over the last month a huge mound of paperwork has amassed on my desk
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Recent Examples of amass
Afrifa has amassed just 216 minutes so far this season and has not picked up a single start.
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Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
The initial public offering could make CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, a milestone that underscores the extraordinary wealth the tech industry has amassed over three decades.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 20 May 2026
But bonding keeps getting interrupted as big, implacable questions rear their head, like wildebeests slowly amassing and waiting to stampede.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026
These accounts on TikTok, Snapchat and Telegram amassed several hundred followers without signs of having been censored.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
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Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
The initial public offering could make CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, a milestone that underscores the extraordinary wealth the tech industry has amassed over three decades.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 20 May 2026
But bonding keeps getting interrupted as big, implacable questions rear their head, like wildebeests slowly amassing and waiting to stampede.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026
These accounts on TikTok, Snapchat and Telegram amassed several hundred followers without signs of having been censored.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amass
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One trust would collect money from the church, parishes, schools and insurance settlements to compensate survivors, while the second trust would manage litigation and insurance claims against insurers that did not settle.—
Bridget Byrne,
Baltimore Sun,
17 May 2026
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If retirement is on your mind, check out the stories—including one from a few weeks ago about my mom’s own struggle to collect Social Security benefits after my dad died.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Instruments and voices accumulate into immense, sustained, saturating dissonances, with a snare drum cutting through the tear-gas haze.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
18 May 2026
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Save Girls’ Sports activists gathered outside Yorba Linda High School in protest, which OutKick documented firsthand through conversations with parents and attendees at the meet.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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Before the team’s departure, the staff gathered for a final walk-through.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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The country has spent two decades building museums, commissioning public art, and assembling blue-chip collections.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
20 May 2026
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As per Bull, the system is based on a modular design, with the supercomputer pre-assembled in containers before being shipped to Airbus’s sites.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
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The original short film has garnered almost 5 million views on YouTube since it was published in 2023.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
17 May 2026
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The stunt became the latest flashpoint in the culture war over girls' sports, garnering millions of views across the internet.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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“Amass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amass. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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