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Recent Examples of constellate To make sense of a correspondence, however complete or incomplete, is to constellate fragmentary evidence, and make surmises about what is missing (including what may not have been apparent to the letter-writers themselves). Langdon Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020 Kathleen Shafer tells Judd’s story, and constellating stories about art, history, landscape, weather, the mysterious Marfa lights, economics, sociology and, of course, real estate. Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
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  • The friends then began attempting to collect more evidence and information and document the encounters through photography (thanks to a psychology professor lending him a camera) and journal entries.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The research team collected 138 needle samples from 23 spruce trees growing near the Kittilä gold mine in Northern Finland.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2025
  • CEOs and global leaders will gather for a dynamic, invitation-only event shaping the future of business.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
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  • All the while, the enchanted garden where Travis would get down on one knee was being assembled outside of his and Swift’s house.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The trailer shows Hemsworth’s Geralt assembling an army of adventurers to track down his former Witcher apprentice Ciri (Freya Allan).
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025
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  • As naval vessels filled the Delaware River that day, crowds amassed along the shorelines to cheer.
    Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Belichick amassed 333 wins, including games in the regular season and playoffs, and is 14 victories away from tying Don Shula for the most by an NFL head coach.
    Lauren Merola, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • No cords or wires will be spilling out thanks to the organization slots at the back of this media unit that stealthily corral them at the back.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, the ball jolted past Dingler and trickled behind the plate, where Flaherty corralled it.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • The program is open to eligible participants from counties in the eastern Upper Peninsula and the west side of the state to parts of metro Detroit, and has garnered tens of millions in public and private dollars as well as bipartisan interest from lawmakers.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Robert Brooks’s murder never garnered the attention of the nation, as George Floyd’s had.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Constellate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constellate. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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