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gathering

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verb

present participle of gather
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as in harvesting
to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use late summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter

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as in accumulating
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass the newspapers that had been allowed to gather on the front doorstep told thieves that the family was away on vacation

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as in summoning
to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers gathered the strength to finish the marathon

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gathering

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adjective

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Recent Examples of gathering
Verb
The porch part of the name is a nod to the role the gathering space plays in Gullah culture. Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025 Real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist Nate Forbes and then-Detroit Mayor Dave Bing took to the stage before a gathering of hundreds of guests to cut the ribbon to The Detroit Shoppe at the Somerset Collection — a pop-up store on the third level of the upscale Troy mall’s north side. Carol Cain, Freep.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Teams are mostly in the information-gathering phase right now — not just evaluating potential targets, but taking a hard look at themselves, too. Dianna Russini, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 One powerful way to do so is launching a signature-gathering campaign for what might be called the 2022 Restoration Act, returning city trash and parking fees to the levels seen that year. U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gathering
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Noun
  • The ruling party, Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, controls the legislature with 94 of 100 seats at the senate and 152 of 180 at the national assembly.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • These capsules were then carefully arranged and sealed within the final experiment assembly.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • More personnel decisions, such as the expulsion and replacement of Central Committee members, are expected to be formalized at the meeting.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In the end, the cause of sea star wasting disease wasn’t discovered in a lab, but in a meeting.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Political parties, media brands, and government agencies turn out to be just a collection of individuals vulnerable to pressure and attack.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In consultation with Todd Arrington, former Director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library, the Protocol Gift Unit opted to purchase a replica of a sword in the Eisenhower collection rather than removing an object from the collection.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But the Chiefs didn’t pick up a first down on either one, collecting 15 yards worth of penalties on the second one to seal the loss.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Guard members have also been tasked with beautification efforts, like collecting trash, spreading mulch and painting fences.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When harvesting the nuts, pickers should wear gloves to protect their hands from the walnuts' juice, which will stain hands.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The race to dominate the humanoid robotics market is as much about harvesting 3D data as finessing the nuts and bolts.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • The impeccable fusion between the organic and the electronic sounds, distinctive of the band led by vocalist Li Saumet, highlights the Caribbean drums, synthesizers and vallenato-style guitars converging at the same point.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But the two issues are converging.
    Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Specifically, Larsson was searching for dentalium shells—the long, tubular shells deriving from dentaliums, a type of marine mollusk.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In the years since, Wickelgren, Kass and others have reframed a host of other enumerative problems using motivic homotopy theory, deriving the relevant quadratic forms in various number systems.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Scientists continued the effort, eventually accumulating data from upward of 7,000 healthy individuals.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Outer lanes are more prone to accumulating water.
    Southern California Weather Report, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025

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