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embank

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Definition of embank

as in to conglomerate

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Unilever’s decision to combine its food business with McCormick & Company while spinning off its ice cream division reflects a broader shift toward portfolio clarity rather than conglomerate complexity.

— Louis Biscotti, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2026
The quickly conglomerating media industry led Henson to consider corporate partnerships to assist with his goal of further expanding the Muppet media universe.

— Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026

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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

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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

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For even better results, try hydrozoning, which involves grouping plants by their water needs.

— Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2026
Apollo Neuro delivers vibration patterns through a wearable to purportedly influence the vagus nerve, and it is frequently grouped with vibroacoustic recovery tools.

— Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026

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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

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If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 June 2026
Daxon Rudolph’s offensive upside Carels, Reid, Šmits and Verhoeff are generally viewed as the top-four defensemen in the class, but some scouts lump Daxon Rudolph into the same tier.

— Peter Baugh, New York Times, 19 June 2026

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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

Definition of gather

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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

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