Thesaurus results for ASSEMBLIES

assemblies

noun

plural of assembly

as in conferences

a body of people come together in one place the usual assembly of early morning commuters waiting at the train station

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as in congregations

a body of persons gathered for religious worship the preacher addressed the assembly in somber tones

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as in meetings

a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose attendance at the awards assembly is mandatory

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Recent Examples of assemblies Effective immediately, the city will not issue new permits to the affected parties for assemblies, parades, special events and noise. — Jared Ochacher, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Anduril relies on Applied Aerospace to deliver the physical aircraft, supplying everything from the engine fuselage and main landing gear assemblies to the wings and horizontal stabilizers. — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 The production model is designed to allow major components and assemblies to be manufactured before final vessel integration. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026 SpaceX designed Starship’s two stages to fly back to a launch tower for a catch by large metal assemblies and accomplished that with boosters on the rocket’s fifth, seventh, and eighth flight tests. — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026 In my own experience, distributing work across the country can create jobs, revive investment in small and medium-size suppliers and reduce bottlenecks by producing modular assemblies outside of congested shipyards. — George Whittier, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 The order also dissolved the national legislature, the country's 10 state governments and their assemblies, as well as authorities in three administrative areas. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 The roadmap calls for Russia to help establish production in Iran of individual parts and assemblies for Russian aircraft. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026 But even the regions that have adopted citizens’ assemblies are a long way off from achieving Landemore’s vision. — Esther King, The Dial, 15 Sep. 2026

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In the eyes of the conferences, and CFP committee, the allure of a postseason bid is the carrot that would dangle in front of them so that fans would look the other way at the nonsense this creates for the football played in September or October.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
These conferences are hosted every four years by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) and discuss measurement issues with member states worldwide.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

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Worshippers are showing up in greater numbers, giving more money to congregations and volunteering more, the study found.

— John Blake, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Rabbi and historian Gary Zola explains that of the six earliest Jewish congregations in the United States, the three Southern congregations in Savannah, Charleston and Richmond were the first to introduce reforms.

— Ashley Walters, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

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Even early in the morning, the cafe had locals in doing breakfast meetings.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2026
Again and again, Misty comes fully alive in the presence of others—a saving grace in a town that still often runs on chance meetings, fateful reunions, and testy but resilient relationships.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

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Beginning in 1989, oil and acrylic paints gave way to olive oil, henna, tea, spices, and coffee, while animal glue, mud, and leather also shaped the group’s posters, paintings, and mixed-media assemblages.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Often these assemblages of items are tied together in a bundle or bag and may be referred to as hands, mojos, or gris-gris.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of assemblages

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Across the country, the preliminary assessment identified damage to seven hotels, 13 churches, 26 government buildings and four residential apartment buildings, in addition to the homes, schools and healthcare facilities already counted.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
The reconstruction of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, where congregants gathered in secret before building a meeting house in Virginia, was celebrated Friday.

— Nancy Jiang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

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Brundage drove from Illinois to attend Luftgekühlt and regularly participates in Porsche rallies and gatherings.

— Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Friday there will be workshops at venues along Broadway during the day, along with gatherings at the Black Panther Party Museum followed by a celebration at the Oakland Museum of California.

— CBS News, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of gatherings

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Storyteller Overland Storyteller also enhances the rear’s role as a storage garage, adding MOLLE-style organizational panels to the underside of the bed.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026
Floated earlier this year, a separate bid to have political appointees—rather than independent expert panels—decide grant recipients garnered significant backlash.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026

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