assembling

present participle of assemble
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as in summoning
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 assembling An Acquisition Chain, Not A One-Off OpenRouter lands on top of a stack Stripe has been assembling piece by piece. Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Peltz weighs deal for Wendy’s Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund is assembling a group that could bid to take Wendy’s private as the chain faces declining sales, falling traffic, and restaurant closures. Phil Wahba, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026 So the company is especially keen on figuring out how automation can reduce the time required for assembling the skid components. Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026 Quarterback McKenzie Milton shouldered the primary burden, assembling a 37-touchdown season that scraped near Heisman talk. Noah White, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026 Most of my setup time was spent removing protective materials and unlocking the motion system rather than actually assembling anything complicated. Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026 It will be won by cities that have spent years assembling investors, identifying stadium sites, building political coalitions and demonstrating that the public and private sectors can actually work together. Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026 The project will add domestic capacity for assembling, integrating, and testing Wärtsilä engines used for ship propulsion and auxiliary power. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 Nvidia is assembling a $500 billion pot from a who’s who of Wall Street firms which will, in turn, backstop OpenAI’s lease of a SoftBank data center in Ohio and help startups rent access to Nvidia’s chips from CoreWeave. Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assembling
Verb
  • The coalition has been canvassing the state, visiting churches, grocery stores and neighborhoods to talk to residents about the issue and gathering 3,500 signatures to present to lawmakers in hopes of inspiring legislative change.
    Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Officers are gathering information at the scene, according to a Fort Worth Police Department spokesperson.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Better access began not with constructing another clinic or hiring an entirely new workforce, but with examining how existing capacity was used.
    Eugene Litvak, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Isolating each peak required constructing a very specific function that, when multiplied by the original fractal-like function, would pull out just the peak and be close to zero everywhere else.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The friends haven’t seen each other in some time, though Frankie spends many an evening parked outside the hospice in his car, summoning the gumption to visit.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The woods could be hiding places of witches and sorcerers, disguised as the old and feeble, but capable of summoning wonder and terrors, charms as well as curses.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Investigators are now reviewing surveillance video and collecting evidence in the neighborhood to piece everything together.
    Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • That comparison includes the boon Target received from collecting its tariff refunds.
    Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Three converging trends explain why the home is where this story will be won or lost, and why the industry serving it needs to innovate and adapt at speed.
    Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Strategists warn that rock-bottom volatility, fresh stock market all-time highs and unresolved geopolitical risks are converging just as markets enter the historically stormy mid-August-to-mid-October stretch.
    Hugh Leask, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The vast majority of SpaceX's launches this year — at the moment, 74 of them — have been devoted to building out the Starlink megaconstellation, which currently consists of nearly 11,000 operational satellites.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • For anyone building toward a finer piece, a moissanite tennis necklace offers a graceful starting point.
    Pooja Mistry, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The network isn’t even mustering up a defense for Jeanine Pirro, previously one of its most prominent pro-Trump hosts.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Serena looked down, heaved a sigh and hooked her knee around the pole before mustering up a halfhearted spin.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Bronin took the other 25, amassing a 10,000-vote victory margin, 54%.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026
  • And oftentimes this president peddles misinformation as a means to other ends, like amassing more money for himself while holding on to his seat of power.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026

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