constellates

verb

present tense third-person singular of constellate
as in collects
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 Synonyms for constellates
  1. collects
  2. assembles
  3. gathers
  4. groups
  5. accumulates
  6. rounds up
  7. amasses
  8. corrals
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  • The remaining argument, worth $36 billion by one count and a couple of state budgets by another, is about who licenses it, who is excluded from it, and who collects the tax.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The 2024 edition of an annual long-term study that collects national data on substance use among Americans ages 19-65 shows that 35-50 year-olds are using hallucinogens more than ever before.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of collects
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  • Scott Winans, center, of Palisade Cycle & Shuttle and the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, supports a beam as a small crew assembles the first parts of a memorial shelter on the Palisade Plunge cycling trail in November 2025.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, the first 100 days are likely to be judged by whether the new president establishes credibility, assembles an effective governing team and demonstrates that campaign promises can evolve into a coherent governing strategy.
    — Armando Regil Velasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembles
Verb
  • The increasingly popular annual staple for cat lovers, created and curated by Will Braden, gathers the best cat videos from across digital media.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Argentina’s shale output is up 28% year-on-year as the country’s pivot to become an energy supplier — rather than buyer — gathers pace.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathers
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  • Because humans can readily resolve patterns in motion — when points move in the same direction, the brain groups them into a unified whole — the moving dots appear as faint letters.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of groups
Verb
  • Software built that way accumulates weight rather than value, and its usable lifespan shrinks instead of extending.
    — Muhammad Muzammil Rawjani, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • As the gas rapidly accumulates within these tiny crevices, the bubbles expand almost instantaneously and push the beverage violently out of the bottle to create a soda fountain, also called a geyser.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of accumulates
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  • Vulture podcast critic Nicholas Quah rounds up the year’s best and most interesting podcasts, with an eye toward illustrating broader shifts in the new-media landscape.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
  • An InStyle editor rounds up 12 lemon drop manicures sweet enough to inspire your next salon visit.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of rounds up
Verb
  • Kang amasses writings from over the course of her career, beginning with her Nobel lecture and reaching deep into her life’s documents, with diaries, poems, and photographs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • The Texas native collects coveted roles and franchise parts like Thanos amasses Infinity Stones or Tom Hanks stockpiles vintage typewriters.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Mar. 2026
Definition of amasses
Verb
  • Goodman’s prose is clear rather than complex, and carefully calibrated to each of her characters; the book’s form corrals the natural speed of her sentences into act-length shapes that one moves around in one’s head like puzzle pieces.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • The map accompanying Gallagher’s resolution corrals the state’s population centers — like the Bay Area, San Diego, Los Angeles and Sacramento — into one state.
    — Lauren Chapman, Sacbee.com, 26 May 2026
Definition of corrals
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