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 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 Gamera uses four landing-gear assemblies positioned inside the two fuselages, allowing weapons to be carried beneath the center section without interfering with the nose gear. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026 Raw sheet is dense and efficient to transport; finished assemblies are often bulky and expensive to move. — Dhanush Bakthavatchalam, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Mustafa Kemal and the creation of the CHP Under Mustafa Kemal’s leadership, the CHP dominated all assemblies until 1950. — Nick Taborall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026 Even a famous artist’s colony and school in the northern part of the city had ceased making furniture and crafts, instead building wooden tail assemblies for planes as metal became scarce. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026 In the library/innovation center, the furniture like whiteboard tables, benches, booths, ottomans and shelves are on wheels, easily moved to change the layout and open up the space for events, assemblies or performances. — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

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The themes to watch out for There are several closed-door sessions on the agenda this year, as climate week joins the growing line-up of other sustainable fashion conferences leaning into off-record roundtables to drive candor and progress.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
The conferences planned strict penalties against schools and coaches if anyone rostered an ex-signee.

— Chris Vannini, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of conferences

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Eventually, the conservatives succeeded; the denomination finally divided in a schism in 2024, with more than seventy-six hundred congregations leaving to join a conservative Global Methodist Church.

— Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
From 2015 to 2025, the sect’s congregations in Idaho experienced 15 preventable deaths of children, according to ProPublica’s reporting.

— Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 26 Aug. 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

Noun

Norman rule helped shape both our churches and our laws, not to mention the language that this sentence is written in.

— John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of churches

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These days, the gatherings have moved up to their place in Woodstock.

— Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Sep. 2026
From the office to autumn weddings and holiday gatherings, these versatile styles can be paired up with heels or boots or worn casually with sneakers or loafers.

— Jacquelyn McGilvray, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of gatherings

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Floating panels expand solar Floating solar can provide developers with another option when suitable land is limited or competing land uses make conventional solar projects difficult to build.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
Moore and Farmer will participate in those panels and public discussions around the film.

— Carole Horst, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

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