bulking (up)

verb

present participle of bulk (up)
as in assembling
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bulking (up)
  1. assembling
  2. collecting
  3. gathering
  4. rounding up
  5. accumulating
  6. amassing
  7. grouping
Verb
  • Miami businessman Carlos de la Cruz, whose family knew the Fanjuls in Cuba, credited Alfonso and his brothers with assembling investors, buying land in Florida and building a sugar company that grew into the nation’s largest cane sugar producer.
    — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Schools on every level are already busy assembling coaches, players and recruits — assessing name, image and likeness potential as well as schedules and logistics — to get a head start.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • Mechanicville, New York, Police Department Chief William Rabbitt told reporters that after more than a month of collecting evidence, investigators had an apparent motive for Amy Steadman, 64, and her daughter Sarah Myers, 44.
    — Matt Foster, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • When the first version can exist by morning, the founder can stop performing certainty and start collecting evidence.
    — Adam Ayers, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of collecting
Verb
  • The spy satellite that changed intelligence forever Before satellites, gathering intelligence on the Soviet Union relied heavily on risky reconnaissance flights such as those carried out by the U-2 spy plane.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Pre-Production Planning Pre-production has become more valuable, especially the process of gathering inspiration, building mood boards and refining storyboards.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathering
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  • Scammers often pretend to be lawyers offering ways to avoid in-person court hearings, taking advantage of anxieties among even lawful residents after ICE officers began rounding up people during immigration proceedings.
    — Naisha Roy, ProPublica, 16 July 2026
  • In other environment news Federal officials are rounding up and relocating 450 wild horses in the Inyo National Forest, near Mono Lake.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Definition of rounding up
Verb
  • Some teachers recommend doing it weekly to catch missing work, spills from leaky water bottles and accumulating crumbs.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • If the organization pays for accumulation and charges for unlearning, accumulating is the correct strategy, and the man with two decades and a photograph for a pattern was doing exactly what those decades had paid him to do.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of accumulating
Verb
  • Federal prosecutors appear to be amassing a wide-ranging list of likely witnesses to take the stand in October when ex-Mayor Sheng Thao and three co-defendants face a criminal trial for charges of bribery and conspiracy.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 31 July 2026
  • The billionaire founder of WeatherTech is amassing an impressive estate in an exclusive beachfront town in Palm Beach County.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
Definition of amassing
Verb
  • So what your company is doing is finding patients with similar symptoms, grouping them together, and then testing drugs on those subgroups so the trial is more likely to be successful?
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • My favorite way of increasing humidity is by grouping a bunch of plants all together in one area.
    — Dr. Matthew Lisy, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouping
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“Bulking (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulking%20%28up%29. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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