colligate

verb

Definition of colligatenext
1
as in to assemble

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2
as in to recognize

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colligate
  1. assemble
  2. recognize
  3. collect
  4. identify
  5. link
  6. refer
  7. conjoin
  8. reclassify
Verb
  • The latest contract builds on work that began in 2023, when GE Aerospace received initial funding for concept development and assembled the team that would work on the platform.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The football players receive 60 minutes against a roster that is usually bigger, faster, stronger and assembled with exponentially more money.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of assemble
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  • The opinion team should have recognized that his biased anti-Israel position was not relevant to the subject of his commentary.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Alas, for all of his brilliance, Miguel struggles to recognize the emergence of his own paranoia, let alone to identify its source.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of recognize
Verb
  • Earlier this year, Johnson ordered Chicago police to collect evidence for possible felony charges against agents.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • After varying the ratios of grass to hay and corn, the milk was then collected to make Cantal cheese and analyzed both in labs and by a jury of consumer experts.
    — Vivian Song, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of collect
Verb
  • Programs such as HyCAT are intended to provide more frequent opportunities to test technologies in realistic flight conditions, potentially allowing developers to identify problems earlier and iterate more quickly.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Plaintiffs sought information identifying people involved in conceiving, creating, and carrying out the fund.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of identify
Verb
  • These digital wallets have also started to link to credit cards and are becoming a more common way to pay than with physical cards.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The shifts that occur, not just in time but in physical space, are linked to the tectonic movement in the play’s emotional ground.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of link
Verb
  • The Department of Homeland Security referred questions about third-country agreements to the State Department, which did not respond to a request for comment.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
  • He was later referred for reconstructive surgery related to his multiple facial injuries, which included fractures of the eye and jaw bones and nose, according to the complaint.
    — Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of refer
Verb
  • The rock kids, the funk kids, the disco-ers, the club rats are all fleetingly conjoined by one pair of highly attuned ears loitering on the streets.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The Moon conjoins fiery Mars, making people quicker to react and less patient with unclear messages.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of conjoin
Verb
  • There had been speculation for some time that Bardwell might reclassify and report to KU for the 2026-27 school year.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2026
  • New York aims to legally reclassify these operations as gambling, which would drastically increase Kalshi's tax obligations and significantly impact its profitability.
    — Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of reclassify
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“Colligate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colligate. Accessed 10 Sep. 2026.

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