as in assembled
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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Coach Steve Lavin had assembled a roster through the spring after 12 of his top 13 scorers from a disappointing 6-27 season exhausted their eligibility or transferred.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
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Adams’ car pulls up to the NYPD Academy in Flushing, Queens, where this year’s class of more than 1,000 cadets has assembled in a massive auditorium.—
Molly Ball,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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In May 2016, police collected DNA evidence from Clay after he was arrested on separate theft charges.—
Kelsey Lentz,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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There were many more secret spy satellite programs on both sides, some of which continued to use film and, later, digital cameras, while others collected signals from antennas or other classified means.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Other big stories ➤ More than 350 residents from Marana and surrounding southern Arizona communities gathered to criticize Management and Training Corporation's refusal to communicate on whether a shuttered state prison will return as an ICE detention center.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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In response to the deployment, several hundred protesters gathered outside the base.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The court found his office wrongly rounded up Latinos in search of people in the country illegally.—
Richard Ruelas,
AZCentral.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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If raking feels like a losing battle, the shopping editors at NBC Select rounded up the best leaf blowers to make yard cleanup faster and easier.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
20 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, like his counterparts, Solomon isn’t necessarily worried about the value of the debt America has accumulated, but rather its debt-to-GDP ratio.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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Cochrane, who also had an interception from his linebacker position in the game, has accumulated three special teams flags this season.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
31 Oct. 2025
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The two showers are grouped together because scientists believe that both the asteroid and the comet are fragments of a single, much larger object that broke up some 20,000 years ago, leaving a collection of debris known collectively as the Encke Complex.—
Tom Hawking,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
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The best of those are Horn’s recent sculptures made of glass that are grouped together on the floor in two places of the exhibition.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025
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And all those cameras on Teslas have amassed one of the largest, if not the largest, datasets for robotics today.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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The big-play Southlake Carroll offense amassed 701 total yards — 445 in the second half — utilizing a balanced attack (395 passing and 306 rushing).—
Mike Waters,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Bulked (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulked%20%28up%29. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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