colligating

present participle of colligate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for colligating
Verb
  • The farmer, his son and grandson were still collecting mink, with more than a dozen live traps deployed and checked routinely, Hobbs said.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Facebook posts have been circulating about collecting donations for the affected seniors.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When they were found on the bathroom floor in 1989, police had reached out to the local news media to spread the word in hopes of identifying family members.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The key to identifying the right white shade for your space is testing.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Music reality series focused on assembling a group have been around for years.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Coaching the Crew The crew — including two backup crew members, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenni Gibbons — have been just as busy as the people assembling their spacecraft.
    Matt Alderton, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Spike Lee will receive the Career Achievement Award, recognizing his four-decade legacy as one of the most influential filmmakers of his generation, with a body of work that includes Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and Da 5 Bloods.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Investors should be heartened by the optimism from these financial executives, while recognizing more discernment is needed before taking any sort of action at the stock level.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bleacher Report's Greg Swartz has identified a potential solution for the Celtics in that regard, linking them to Orlando Magic big man Goga Bitadze.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Norman, then based in Dallas, was not criminally connected to Corll, though a line in a subsequent congressional investigation into the trafficking ring suggested that Dallas police had evidence linking Corll’s victims to Norman’s organization.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And, through it all, the objects with mass and/or energy in the Universe gravitate, clumping and clustering together to form a great cosmic web.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The pins appear to march through the entire valley, overlaying each other and clustering at the locations of ranches and farms.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Following the revelation by his mother that Louis was avidly gathering conkers as a favorite autumn activity, the World Conker Championships extended an offer for the prince to become the event's honorary patron.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Initiative petitions must survive an expensive and time-consuming signature-gathering process to qualify for the statewide ballot.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Generous clusters of aromatic flowers in lavender-blue, violet and purple grow on clumping plants to a height and girth of three feet.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In a final step, the powder was mixed with a carrier liquid, in which the microparticles stayed suspended without clumping together.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Colligating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colligating. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!