as in to collect
to bring together in one body or place
the museum has constellated many of the artist's most glorious paintings into one stunning exhibition
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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).
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for constellate
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That saving gets split roughly three ways among Cibus, the seed company and the farmer, and Cibus collects $20 to $30 per acre in royalties.—
Noelle Harff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2026
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The crew’s mission is to track down three high-value bounties and collect cargo along the way.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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Save Girls’ Sports activists gathered outside Yorba Linda High School in protest, which OutKick documented firsthand through conversations with parents and attendees at the meet.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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Before the team’s departure, the staff gathered for a final walk-through.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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The country has spent two decades building museums, commissioning public art, and assembling blue-chip collections.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
20 May 2026
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As per Bull, the system is based on a modular design, with the supercomputer pre-assembled in containers before being shipped to Airbus’s sites.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
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Instruments and voices accumulate into immense, sustained, saturating dissonances, with a snare drum cutting through the tear-gas haze.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
18 May 2026
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As Puck reported in March, L Catterton had been on the hunt for an investor, hoping to clear about $90 million of debt Everlane had amassed.—
Bella Webb,
Vogue,
22 May 2026
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The Cockroach Janta Party, its name a satirical riff on the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party, has amassed more than 19 million Instagram followers in less than a week, almost double the government’s audience.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
22 May 2026
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This $12 hanging purse organizer will corral all your seasonal handbags, while these vacuum seal bags will neatly stash winter clothing until next year.—
Brittany VanDerBill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 May 2026
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Video shows dozens of officers — some carrying riot shields — corralling the large group in the middle of the street.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2026
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Rolfo | Moment | Getty Images This summer, mega artist Harry Styles will take the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City for an exclusive 30-show residency – his only planned stop in the country and a show that's garnered intense attention since its announcement.—
Laya Neelakandan,
CNBC,
23 May 2026
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Yet garnering major profits from AI may take a lot longer.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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“Constellate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constellate. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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