colligating

present participle of colligate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for colligating
Verb
  • The United States and France first warned more than a decade ago that Russian satellites appeared to be spying and collecting information on their assets, including on commercially run satellites.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Those instruments stayed grounded during Melissa, while other instruments and drones collecting forecast information were deployed.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Alabama has heard the rumors of Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables and his staff being good at identifying signs that opposing offenses use.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The discovery helped open the door to more recent developments such as tinkering with the genetic makeup of living things, treating disease by inserting genes into patients, identifying human remains and criminal suspects from DNA samples, and tracing family trees and ancient human ancestors.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The exhilarating Christmas Eve in Miller's Point wastes no time in assembling its massive cast of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws, and pet lizards.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Tony Vitello will be tasked with assembling a new group of pitching coaches.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Ross reunited with Girlfriends co-stars Jill Marie Jones, Persia White and Golden Brooks, who presented her with the Pathbreaker of the Year award, recognizing her longevity onscreen and business savvy as founder of Pattern Beauty.
    Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The minister highlighted that Taiwan established TAICCA six years ago after recognizing that the content industry represents a strategic sector.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Train Queensland Rail’s network is fast, clean, and reliable, linking the city to the airport, suburbs, and coastal escapes like the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.
    Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Some research groups have tried linking several short crystals in sequence so each crystal handles part of the amplification.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 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
  • Fans refused to let the brand die quietly, turning a shuttered company into a social-media cause, gathering on a Facebook page titled Please Bring Back La Tiara Taco Shells.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Countries are gathering in Brazil at the COP30 summit to take stock of climate change.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Alzheon's product is meant to keep plaques from forming in the first place, by preventing amyloid proteins from clumping at all.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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“Colligating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colligating. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.

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