assembles

present tense third-person singular of assemble
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as in summons
to bring together in assembly by or as if by command we assembled the club members to decide who would be traveling with whom on the trip

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Recent Examples of assembles Scott Winans, center, of Palisade Cycle & Shuttle and the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, supports a beam as a small crew assembles the first parts of a memorial shelter on the Palisade Plunge cycling trail in November 2025. Logan Smith, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026 Instead, the first 100 days are likely to be judged by whether the new president establishes credibility, assembles an effective governing team and demonstrates that campaign promises can evolve into a coherent governing strategy. Armando Regil Velasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026 The network team follows one pattern, the cloud team follows another, and the SRE team assembles a timeline under pressure from multiple dashboards. Kannan Kothandaraman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 All the while, Myers assembles a possible titan in Philly, and the Warriors are left staring down the pipe at another depressing play-in tournament exit at absolute best. Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026 Like its predecessor, the new collection assembles an eclectic roster of artists interpreting Young’s catalog. Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 July 2026 When figuring out what agents to potentially build, Bozeman assembles cross-functional teams consisting of engineers, operational domain experts, and people from business departments like finance and legal. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 July 2026 An employee assembles a long-range drone in a workshop of the Fire Point company which manufactures FP-1 deep-strike drones and FP-2 strike drones in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on January 29, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sam Meredith, CNBC, 7 July 2026 In terms of overall quality, the movie the player assembles out of that 652-page framework isn’t bad! Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assembles
Verb
  • The increasingly popular annual staple for cat lovers, created and curated by Will Braden, gathers the best cat videos from across digital media.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Argentina’s shale output is up 28% year-on-year as the country’s pivot to become an energy supplier — rather than buyer — gathers pace.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Everything builds towards the fateful New Year’s Eve concert at the Hollywood Palladium.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Every meeting, follow-up, deadline and client interaction either builds trust or marginalizes it.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • When the lawman asks for compensation for the fallen man’s widow, Cypher’s Frank Tanner summons a force to battle him.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Gloria is a user, a poseur extraordinaire; her fluttery flamboyance, rooted in insecurity, summons another Gloria, the one from Sunset Blvd.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The remaining argument, worth $36 billion by one count and a couple of state budgets by another, is about who licenses it, who is excluded from it, and who collects the tax.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The 2024 edition of an annual long-term study that collects national data on substance use among Americans ages 19-65 shows that 35-50 year-olds are using hallucinogens more than ever before.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • This toilet meets Americans with Disabilities Act requirements for use and accessibility.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • While daytime staffing at its Sharp Mesa Vista behavioral health hospital already meets requirements, overnight shifts have been managed based on the number of patients in beds and on the severity of their illnesses.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The system constructs a real-time 3D spatial map using high-frequency acoustic pulses to navigate in total darkness while maintaining a compact form factor.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
  • The Yale startup, which constructs quantum computers, was acquired in January for $550 million by D-Wave, a leading quantum business based in Palo Alto, Calif.
    P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • Catherine’s story line evokes a feverish what-if scenario in which a survivor musters the requisite recklessness, talent for murder, and wig collection to mete out retribution.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
  • Every writer on our longlist brilliantly musters the power of words on the page to take the reader to new places, to see old places from new angles, to change minds.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • Kang amasses writings from over the course of her career, beginning with her Nobel lecture and reaching deep into her life’s documents, with diaries, poems, and photographs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • The Texas native collects coveted roles and franchise parts like Thanos amasses Infinity Stones or Tom Hanks stockpiles vintage typewriters.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Mar. 2026

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