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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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Verb
  • The launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base is the first phase in a constellation called FireSat that will eventually cover the globe with 50 satellites collecting high-resolution imagery of fires and conditions on the ground every 20 minutes.
    Eric Niiler, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • By June, almost half of Emirati crude shipments were sailing on vessels controlled by Sinokor, according to ship tracking data collected by analytics firm Vortexa.
    Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • Once the excitement had died down, the team gathered in a circle and a player went up to Haaland, grabbed the back of his neck and kissed his cheek.
    Tim Rohan, NBC news, 6 July 2026
  • He was surrounded by beige pleather armchairs gathered around low tables adorned with silk flowers.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • In one experiment, participants who assembled furniture themselves were willing to pay 63% more for it than participants who received the same item preassembled.
    Julia Dhar, Time, 11 July 2026
  • Each vehicle takes about 900 hours of labor to assemble, all of which is done by hand.
    Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • Garbrandt was hurt, the follow-up shots were landing flush, and the wave-off came before real damage accumulated.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026
  • According to testimony from Schettino and those who knew him, obtained by Reuters, the captain had accumulated three decades at sea, including work on oil tankers and passenger cruise liners.
    Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 11 July 2026
Verb
  • Cancro’s brother John Cancro received about $21 million in compensation over the same period and brother-in-law Daniel Powers amassed more than $31 million from fiscal 2024 to 2025.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • Other season eight episodes amassed 515 million minutes; the remainder of the weekly total was for past seasons, including three pre-Peacock runs that stream on Disney+ and Paramount+.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2026
Verb
  • All five of the suspects have residences in San Francisco, accoring to police, and the San Francisco Police Department helped corral them in Richmond.
    Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • Moments later, another shot on goal was once again corralled by Nyland.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Again, these are creators who are operating like studios, many of them churning out episode after episode and garnering a lot of views.
    Peter White, Deadline, 8 July 2026
  • Goli recalled that one woman said that his design wouldn’t help her, garnering agreement from her peers.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

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“Constellate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constellate. Accessed 14 Jul. 2026.

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