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
  • Acxiom, a major data company, developed a segmentation system called PersonicX that grouped households into lifestyle categories.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Two popular names with deep ties to the Pittsburgh region will be grouped this week at the PGA Tour's event in Bermuda.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of grouped
Verb
  • Its autonomy software, called AviernOS, has accumulated more than 150 miles of autonomous flight, according to the company’s website.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Skin and lives that have accumulated years with care hold a beauty that youth cannot reproduce.
    — Kati Chitrakorn, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of accumulated
Verb
  • Where previously tanks and massed armed formations fought across relatively delineated front lines, now drones from either side battle in the sky.
    — Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Only the dark bodies of container ships, crowned with blinking lights, massed along the sea’s horizon, as solid as a wall.
    — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of massed
Verb
  • For Round 2, Raman’s allies assembled a series of outside campaign committees to promote her mayoral bid.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Since taking office, Mamdani has named Diya Vij, an arts-organizations veteran, to lead the Department of Cultural Affairs, and assembled a slew of heavyweights to serve on his Committee on Arts and Culture.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • The brand’s Peptide Detox shampoo, which adsorbs hard water deposits to thoroughly clean hair, has amassed 238,000 impressions on TikTok this month and can consistently be found topping the app’s section for popular searches.
    — Tracy Achonwa, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
  • This new holiday collection comes at a busy time for Birkenstock, which has amassed quite an active release calendar.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of amassed
Verb
  • Prosper police detectives searched Garcia’s home and collected DNA evidence consistent with the girl’s account of what had happened, according to the DA’s office.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators processed the scene, collected evidence and interviewed witnesses.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of collected
Verb
  • Their ordinary matter — their gas and dust — swirled about and got clumped up.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
  • When the researchers tested what the hydroxyl radicals could do, a common protein clumped together at the plastic surfaces — a sign that its structure had been damaged.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of clumped
Verb
  • The trio will be bunched together inside of a circle measuring only about 2½ degrees in diameter.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The most critical of which came on fourth down, when Wisconsin went five wide, with four receivers bunched on one side.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of bunched
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