embanked

verb

past tense of embank
as in grouped

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  1. grouped
  2. accumulated
  3. massed
  4. assembled
  5. amassed
  6. collected
  7. clumped
  8. bunched
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  • Some tell a coherent story when grouped; others are simply strange on their own terms.
    — Scott White, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Those metrics were then grouped into three categories — Cost & Financing, Education Outcomes and Career Outcomes — to determine each state's overall score.
    — Ahmed Jawadi, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouped
Verb
  • The state has also taken corrective action on debt and paid down $10 billion in long standing pension debt, which had accumulated for several decades dating back to the 1940’s.
    — Kevin McNabola, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The lessons learned and knowledge accumulated by your scientists and engineers are valuable human capital that no one else has.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of accumulated
Verb
  • The low block—where teams massed defenders rigidly behind the ball—not so much.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • The Joint Force seeks a cost-effective, theater-range, massed, and modular Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to provide a flexible, operationally-responsive, risk-tolerant option in the air domain.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 July 2026
Definition of massed
Verb
  • These immortal beings assembled various groups (including the Green Lantern Corps) in an effort to bring about order and peace.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In front of the most Hall of Famers assembled for a game since 2008, Schwarber put on a legendary performance of his own.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • Roman Karkosik, an entrepreneur whose ventures included plastic-bottle manufacturing in the 1990s, amassed a fortune through investments on the Warsaw Stock Exchange to became one of Poland’s wealthiest individuals.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • As of July, Hochul’s political operation has amassed a war chest that is nine times as large as Blakeman’s.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of amassed
Verb
  • Instead of trying to locate bears in the wild, the survey relies on hair samples collected in barbed wire traps, which can be used to identify individual bears based on their DNA.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Steelers outgained Green Bay 385-160 and collected yardage in huge chunks at times on plays that had receivers running wide open against a vanilla defense more focused on fundamentals than elaborate schemes for a game that didn't count.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of collected
Verb
  • The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped?
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 5 July 2026
  • The same is true if the entire jar seems overly hardened or clumped into a solid mass.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
Definition of clumped
Verb
  • The designer believes that the gown got bunched up during Diana’s carriage ride to the church.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 29 July 2026
  • Skylrk Slouchy Socks bunched above a pair of unreleased Matter Daddy sneakers in the Latte colorway, while Speed Demon sunglasses in Jet supplied the narrow black frames.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 19 July 2026
Definition of bunched
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