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 Ukraine has earned worldwide recognition for its cutting-edge drone industry, designing and assembling systems that have changed modern warfare. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Those aren't great odds, but as Dodgers fans kept reminding everyone while assembling their superteam, baseball is inherently random. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 That arrangement is efficient for moving large volumes over long distances, but assembling trains and coordinating terminal operations can make smaller, short-haul shipments less economical. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026 The director Peter Sellars, who staged the piece’s first production last year, also worked with me on assembling the libretto, and Peter is a force of liberation. — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026 De La Faverie has brought in outside talent, assembling a leadership team where three-quarters of its members are either new to the company or to their roles, and many come from outside the world of beauty. — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 Mark Zuckerberg is also establishing a family compound Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is worth $261 billion, has also been assembling a family compound in Palo Alto one house at a time. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 The platform is aimed at creators working in short-form video and short dramas, at developer platforms assembling AI video tools, and at enterprise production teams. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 Finance stops assembling the numbers and starts interpreting them, which sounds like a promotion and lands as a capability problem, since the skill of assembling is not the skill of judging. — Charisma Glassman, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assembling
Verb
  • Russia's Federal Security Service said the man, who works for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, was suspected of gathering information about Russia's defense capability on behalf of a Japanese intelligence agency.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • While Boeing callously deflects blame for their negligence, a family of one victim finds strength in gathering collective mourning.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Tearing down existing homes on land that is more than 6,000 square feet of the property and constructing multi-family units would produce a financial gap that makes the construction infeasible, according to the study.
    — Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Shout out to my little brother, who gifted me a New York Times Games subscription back in 2023 and began my journey to constructing.
    — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That prompted South Korea to accuse Ukraine of breaching a nondisclosure agreement about the transfer and summoning Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires for an explanation.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The women recall Haworth summoning them to a garage where they were pressured to undress and have fully nude photos taken of themselves as rock ‘n’ roll music blared.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Americans in general did not want the government collecting unified, know-all records of every citizen.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Leaders should also consider how factoring may affect customer relationships, particularly when the factor takes an active role in collecting receivables.
    — Andrew Coon, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Why Screening Is So Important Three forces are converging to push lobular breast cancer into sharper public focus.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
  • That growing institutional interest is converging with demand from retail investors, who have long sought the ability to trade around the clock, according to Friedman.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Since its founding, Storyteller has made flexible vans with outdoor accoutrements front of mind, building out versatile multi-use spaces for strapping in large cargo during the ride before rearranging into a bedroom/workshop once there.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Coniglio collaborated with Bloomingdale’s Carousel in 2025, building a 2,000-square-foot space at the New York flagship and will be on Moda Operandi next month.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Hassan has work to do in front of goal, having failed to score in almost 2,000 minutes on the pitch in La Liga, mustering only three assists.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • The Razorbacks' run game lifted them throughout, amassing 187 yards.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
  • In 2019, two years before Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang began amassing a family of more than 20 surrogate children, Zhang was accused of misdemeanor child abuse after leaving her then-8-year-old daughter in a hot car for hours.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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“Assembling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assembling. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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