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
Verb
  • Brady was grouped with Novak Djokovic and eventual overall winner Justin Bieber (both of whom hit multiple shots from the three-point line).
    — David Betancourt, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Among the diverse international literatures grouped together under that heading, there are dozens of writers who reinvented literature to cope with ruptures of their own.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of grouped
Verb
  • After creating videos, some of which have accumulated millions of views across platforms, Badger earned representation from Digital Brand Architects, or DBA, a creator-management company, which was acquired by United Talent Agency.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • By the time crews arrived at the scene, somewhere between 3 and 4 feet of water and mud had accumulated in the theater, engulfing all of the ground floor seats and rising to the height of the elevated stage.
    — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 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
  • The French Laundry has assembled a remarkable collection of rare and vintage spirits, including Scotch whisky, bourbon, Cognac, Armagnac and Chartreuse.
    — Yuri Shima, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • Steady and spectacular and dedicated to his craft on defense, Swanson embodies the group of position players the Cubs have assembled.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • Smead has amassed a large following online with more than 4,000 followers on Facebook.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • Over the past few years, Sofie Birch has amassed a sparkling catalog of bucolic curios on outré labels.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026
Definition of amassed
Verb
  • Closer Aroldis Chapman collected seven saves in the 15-game stretch.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Unlike LLMs like ChatGPT, which can parse the virtually boundless internet, robots need manipulation data collected in the real physical world, which is costly and difficult to scale.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 July 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
  • 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
  • Spain, England and Argentina are all a solid amount behind France in the odds, but are tightly bunched among themselves.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 13 July 2026
Definition of bunched
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