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embanked

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past tense of embank

as in grouped

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Iran qualified and has been grouped with Syria, China and Kyrgyzstan for the league stage.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
In a two-page editorial published in 1976, Katzman argued that some instances of early- and late-onset dementia should be grouped together as Alzheimer’s disease.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

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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

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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

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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

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Amused, the actor offered a gentle lesson in mixing the perfect vodka and orange juice—just one of countless tales this legendary hotel has collected over nearly a century.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
State health officials collected samples from retail stores in the Sacramento area.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026

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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

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