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 As that year’s freshman class president, Miles’ father, George, was instrumental in assembling some 600 freshmen to lug into place 300 tons of loose rock left over from the stadium excavation. Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026 On the provider side, the response is a person opening a portal, reading the denial reason, pulling the record and assembling an appeal by hand. Oleg Nesterov, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Synspective is assembling a constellation of about 30 Strix satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Mike Wall, Space.com, 31 Aug. 2026 Lines formed outside of Daisy Chain Reaction, the area where the nonprofits invited attendees to learn about their organizations while participating in crafts like assembling daisy chains and making flower crowns. Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2026 This crucial sci-fi-like process is employed early on when assembling such a complex feat of engineering. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 This would be an intense time of building, assembling art and art cars, and a lot of people just have not been able to get any work done on their projects. Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026 The team highlighted that the NSWC Corona controls and ships gages to the defense industrial base partners responsible for manufacturing and assembling the Trident missile. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026 Detectives followed phones, video and fingerprints The original investigation shows how Miami-Dade homicide detectives began assembling the case. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assembling
Verb
  • Detectives are working to identify people involved and gathering statements from witnesses, Gonzalez said.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Summer temperatures are expected to last into October, and El Niño is currently gathering strength in the Pacific.
    Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Asante draws a manufacturing analogy—with some exaggeration—arguing that previous nuclear power plants were built bespoke, akin to constructing an entire factory to produce a single car.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Mendoza, of the Philippine Tennis Association, told me that new public courts are being built around the country, and the government is constructing a new national tennis center.
    Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • After the initial group of firefighters got to the scene, a second alarm was called, summoning more fire and hazardous material crews to the blaze.
    Ahmad Hemingway, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Chase said the acquisition marked an expansion of the library’s collecting interests beyond its millions of rare books, manuscripts and historical items spanning from the 11th through the 21st centuries.
    Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Sunil Pandey Speaking with NBC News in Pokhara, Nabin Karki, a superintendent of police, said authorities were collecting DNA samples and displaying photos of the bodies found in hopes that family members might be able to identify them.
    Surendra Phuyal, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Space technology, autonomy and robotics are converging around AI, sensors, edge compute, power systems and advanced manufacturing.
    John Gabriel, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Also converging upon the city are Ahmed, who has lost his job in the 1929 stock market crash, and a riveter on the under-construction Empire State Building with secret connections to all of them.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Mid-cap companies are also investing more in building new capacity, Nitin Bhasin, head of institutional equities at Ambit Capital, told CNBC.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Zag will sit down with Deadline at the Rendez-Vous to discuss the business, and his approach to building animation franchises and connecting with younger audiences.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Cubs offense showed signs of a lineup potentially entering a slump, just a day after mustering one hit in a loss to the Nationals.
    Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Tabansi, a tackle, and Wayburn, a guard, were multi-year starters at Buffalo and UConn, respectively, amassing more than 2,200 offensive snaps.
    Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2026
  • In June, Baumeyer launched 20-0, an online game that lets players draft a fantasy team from varying eras in gridiron history in hopes of amassing a score worthy of a perfect season.
    Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 26 Aug. 2026

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“Assembling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assembling. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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