clusters 1 of 2

plural of cluster

clusters

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of cluster

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clusters
Noun
Industrial parks, logistics hubs, and technology clusters are springing up. — Ningrong Liu, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said earlier this month that two supercomputing clusters powered by Nvidia technologies had already been launched in the country. — Jenny Lee,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 These are clusters of tiny blood vessels that filter waste and excess fluid from the blood. — Md Published, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2026 California retains major advantages — talent, research universities, industry clusters and global-market access — but faces pressure to ease costs without abandoning protections and services. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 This year’s grape harvest was one of the earliest in decades for some regions, with significantly less tonnage harvested following weather events in the spring that led to smaller grape clusters. — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Selects, meanwhile, are individual large oysters hand-separated from those clusters. — Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2026 His decorations included the Air and Space Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters and the Army Commendation Medal, the Air and Space Achievement Medal and the Army Achievement Medal, each with one oak leaf cluster. — Shayna Jacobs, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026 The Milky Way runs straight through it, bringing with it three bright open star clusters — M36, M37 and M38. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
The historical profile again clusters tightly. — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 Liquidity cluster Wells Fargo added that most liquidity already clusters around the market open and close, making the idea of stretching trading hours even further counterproductive. — Yun Li, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025 These two effects, together — of galaxies moving with varying speeds through environments of varying densities — make rich galaxy clusters the ideal environments to find galaxies that experience the greatest amounts of stripping from within them. — Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025 The result is expensive accelerators sit idle while CPU clusters max out on tasks other hardware could complete far faster. — Jg Chirapurath, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2025 Mold will appear fuzzy or thick, does not wipe away cleanly, and often clusters near the stem where the grapes are connected. — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clusters
Noun
  • Waiting for the last batches of mail-in ballots Many mail-in votes won’t arrive until days after Election Day.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Carpenter and King have preferred to keep their batches small and their marketing limited to word of mouth, but that word is spreading, especially across their ravenous genre-loving fan base.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In separate local elections, various independent candidates and groupings appeared to be winning most seats nationwide, a traditional result.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, of the 105 political parties and groupings qualified to participate, only 33 had successfully submitted their membership lists.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • All of it converges on the single event of a physician deciding to write the prescription.
    — Harshit Jain, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Dealers are offering their best, timed to be on view when the art world converges on New York for the Armory Show fair, opening later this month.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Despite his injury, Tasci continued to be an active participant on the sideline and in team huddles throughout the game.
    — Sean Campbell, Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • An engineer overhears a sales call where a partner is requesting a specific feature and immediately huddles with the salesperson once the line clicks shut.
    — Vikram Joshi, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, airborne early-warning aircraft often use large radar arrays mounted above the fuselage to provide surveillance over a broad area.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The millimeter-wide arrangements of around 10,000 nerves and supporting cells sat on microelectrode arrays that let researchers stimulate the tissue and record its activity.
    — Mike McRae October 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Carter ruled after a 3½-hour hearing Tuesday, where a slew of attorneys for the state, county and independent voting rights groups argued against the administration’s demands.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • This gives several sets of interest groups an opportunity to use the FCC’s public review and approval process to advocate for federal limits on space technologies.
    — Max Harden, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The new book also gathers behind-the-scenes photos from the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, which returned to theaters for a limited engagement in 2023.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Atlas Workshops is one prong of Marrakech’s Atlas Programs banner, which gathers the professional initiatives of the Marrakech International Film Festival.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • My father piles French toast and syrup onto a plate and my mother pours a glass of milk.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Big swine farms produce huge amounts of solid waste, which piles up in lagoons until a flood can wash them into rivers.
    — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026

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“Clusters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clusters. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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