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or foregather
as in to gather
to come together into one body or place
asked the townsfolk to forgather at the war monument for the Memorial Day ceremony
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After the game, Crawford gathered the entire group of friends and family together on the field for photos.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026 -
Longoria darts across the kitchen to gather more gastronomic tidbits and sample leftover morsels.—
Lale Arikoglu,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Mar. 2026
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Within eight minutes, the New Kensington fire department arrived and was met with heavy flames at the back of the house.—
Jessica Riley,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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The teams meet for the third time this season.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Others were looking ahead to Geneva next month, when the industry converges for Watches and Wonders and the constellation of satellite events that now orbit it.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
30 Mar. 2026
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As of late March, these two meanings have converged.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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That flight will now be followed by an additional mission next year — Artemis III — in which astronauts aboard an Orion capsule in low-Earth orbit will rendezvous and dock with one or both moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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This time the dress traveled to Milan to rendezvous with Moore.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
4 Mar. 2026
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The group assembles in a staggered formation and uses hand signals to communicate road hazards and turns.—
Brenda Miranda,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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Eventually, amid depth-charge bass blasts and Spikeheart’s death-metal growls, a beat assembles itself, at first vaguely trap-like, then closer in spirit to UK funky.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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Chiefs beat writers Pete Sweeney and Blair Kerkhoff convened in The Star’s (mock) draft room to come up with choices for all nine picks.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
24 Mar. 2026
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Balerion Space Ventures, a venture capital firm that has invested in multiple companies, convened an investor summit there in January 2025, according to an invitation viewed by ProPublica.—
Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Forgather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forgather. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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