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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  • Employers are grouped by the overall size of their organization, and the number of employees invited to the survey, which might include employees outside Chicagoland.
    — Kim Quillen, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Its antique silver hue would look beautiful as the star of a holiday table or on a mantel, grouped with other candleholders.
    — Brittany VanDerBill, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of grouped
Verb
  • Across its commercial operations Digit has accumulated more than 65,000 hours of real-world operation.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Filgueiras had accumulated about 1,300 hours of flight experience up until her death.
    — Zoey Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 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
  • Saudi Arabia assembled a coalition backing the government, waging a yearslong campaign of air bombardment that brought it international condemnation over civilian deaths.
    — AHMED HATEM, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Its latest product is a magnetic modular display system designed to be assembled quickly, packed away when not in use, and used to add up to three additional screens to a laptop.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • Once in office, though, Peña quietly amassed a rival power base, analysts say.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Together, the books have amassed more than 100 million Kindle page reads worldwide in just three and a half months.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of amassed
Verb
  • The third-party testing also found indoor airborne mold concentrations significantly below outdoor levels at the time samples were collected, according to the district’s summary.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Nov. 2026
  • His team plans to combine measurements from star and Sun sensors with positioning data collected through a network of radio beacons.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of collected
Verb
  • The finding fits theories that planets and other bodies in the solar system were built in waves as a mixture of fine dust, ice, organic matter and specks of stardust circling the newborn sun clumped together into ever larger objects.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Their ordinary matter — their gas and dust — swirled about and got clumped up.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of clumped
Verb
  • The rest of the property (including Kapano, Lelapo, and the amenities like the gym, spa, and kids clubhouse) is bunched closer together in one area.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The trio will be bunched together inside of a circle measuring only about 2½ degrees in diameter.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of bunched
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