as in to collect
to bring together in one body or place
she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other
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Elliott said that municipalities could issue bonds to cover the cost of the purchase and then pay those debts back over time at lower interest rates through the revenues collected from customers.
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Some police jurisdictions send officers to physically collect weapons.
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Many of the drones can be assembled domestically, but Hezbollah is reliant on components from abroad.
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Schultz brings digitalism back to its dexterous roots, paying homage to the hands that assembled the virtual realm.
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On this late May evening, the 15 men gathered there were contemplating tackling something few had previously had the courage or skill to take on.
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Early yesterday, as Argentina sealed a 3-0 victory over Algeria, hundreds of fans gathered on the courtyard lawn of Beijing’s Argentine Embassy to cheer the team on.
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Bud Kennedy’s Eats Beat column rounds up steakhouse splurges, Stockyards classics and a barbecue experience worth booking before the day arrives.
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The military held a similar security strip from 1985 until 2000, before withdrawing after years of steady casualties, a toll that is accumulating once again.
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.
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Goodman’s prose is clear rather than complex, and carefully calibrated to each of her characters; the book’s form corrals the natural speed of her sentences into act-length shapes that one moves around in one’s head like puzzle pieces.
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Messi stuck a boot back, corralled the ball, took a half-turn and fired a laser low and into the corner of the net past Zidane.
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The public obviously cannot know every factor that went into the Artemis III crew decision, and to the astronauts themselves, flight assignments are part of their workplace life, like getting grouped together for projects are at our own jobs.
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Agentic marketing gets grouped with categories that operate very differently.
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This revelation sparks questions about a potential double standard by MLB, suggesting a stricter enforcement of uniform policies now that the issue has garnered national attention, compared to Kershaw's similar past actions.
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Lionel Messi’s incredible soccer career has garnered him millions of fans, but no one is as proud of him as his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo.
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“Bulk (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulk%20%28up%29. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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