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as in collected
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 accumulated
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 amassed
Elijah Flowers, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2025
Around that time, a front-page story in The New York Times detailed how Dundon and others had amassed wealth by packaging risky auto loans made to low-income people and selling those loans as securities for hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
No one before or since has amassed such a catalog of quirky child behaviors that researchers even today can replicate within individual children.
—Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
His three adult children have amassed huge social media followings, just like their patriarch.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
In just a matter of days, the TikTok post has amassed over 2 million views and more than 334,700 likes at the time of writing.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Though the Yankees have used three of their top relievers (David Bednar, Devin Williams and Fernando Cruz) in the first two games, none amassed high pitch counts.
—Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
The TikTok, which has now amassed more than 160 million views, sparked an immediate conversation online.
—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
The viral YouTube horror series has amassed nearly 200 million views since its 2022 debut, and before getting a feature film greenlight.
—Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Barreling through the first quarter, Western Hills amassed three more touchdowns from De’Anthony Monroe, Mohammed Soumahoro, and Jeremiah Stribling.
—Elijah Flowers, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2025
Around that time, a front-page story in The New York Times detailed how Dundon and others had amassed wealth by packaging risky auto loans made to low-income people and selling those loans as securities for hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
No one before or since has amassed such a catalog of quirky child behaviors that researchers even today can replicate within individual children.
—Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
His three adult children have amassed huge social media followings, just like their patriarch.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
In just a matter of days, the TikTok post has amassed over 2 million views and more than 334,700 likes at the time of writing.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Though the Yankees have used three of their top relievers (David Bednar, Devin Williams and Fernando Cruz) in the first two games, none amassed high pitch counts.
—Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
The TikTok, which has now amassed more than 160 million views, sparked an immediate conversation online.
—Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
The viral YouTube horror series has amassed nearly 200 million views since its 2022 debut, and before getting a feature film greenlight.
—Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amassed
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In order to determine if the intriguing minerals were produced by microbial metabolism or an abiotic process, samples collected by the rover would need to be delivered to Earth for further analysis, team members have stressed.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Tagovailoa looked calm and collected in the first half.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Smith’s half-sack against the Kansas City Chiefs remains the only such statistic the unit has accumulated so far.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Tigers accumulated 10 hits and four walks overall, but struck out 12 times and never scored again.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Reaching the Frontier Over the past year, ByteDance has assembled top AI talent, hiring a former vice president of Google DeepMind to lead AI foundational research and luring other engineers and researchers away from Alibaba and other start-ups, the Financial Times reported in December.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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They were delivered fully assembled and dynamically balanced from the company’s production base on the Yangtze River.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Days after a gunman drove a truck into a Grand Blanc Township church and opened fire on worshippers, killing four people and wounding eight, hundreds gathered in Flint for a community safety briefing focused on crisis response and prevention in houses of worship.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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On Tuesday night, hundreds of people gathered to remember the teenagers, according to CNN affiliate WABC.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Another reason notice matters is that some states govern the payout of accrued and unused leave to departing employees and may specify the timeframe for paying their final paycheck.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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The employer should include the value of accrued and unused vacation, including the value of vacation time accrued during garden leave itself, in the employees’ final paycheck at the end of garden leave.—
Dan Eaton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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The institute made this revelation on September 30, as humanoid robots from their startups garnered attention for their ability to work at shipyards and walk on streets.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2025
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Photos shared online of the sandy-colored dog have garnered more than 520 upvotes, with users admiring his regal yet quirky appearance.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Instead of tracking individual users, MMM looks at aggregated data—spend, impressions, sales—to show how channels contribute over time.—
Bernard May,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Holland and Marek Epstein’s screenplay breathlessly regurgitates an aggregated fact sheet of Kafka’s life.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Caribbean-facing region of Quintana Roo has some of Mexico's busiest and most built-up beachfronts, but visitors looking for a more serene escape will love still-secret destinations like Mahahual.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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While the Classic looks a little more built-up, and has what may be a larger, physical rotating bezel, both watches have what’s known in some circles as a squircle design.—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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“Amassed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amassed. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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