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to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
clouds massing on the western side of the mountain range
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Recent Examples of massed
Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
Touch of Gold® Holly makes an eye-catching accent in borders and can be massed as a low hedge or tall groundcover.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Thousands more were massed outside the gates.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Soldiers massed around Central, crossing rifles to prevent the Black students, who would soon be immortalized as the Little Rock Nine, from entering the grounds.
—Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork, 4 Apr. 2026
The nectar plants should be massed together in groups of three and five by color.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 3 Apr. 2026
Yet their embarrassing 2-1 defeat at Macclesfield, from the sixth tier of football in England, as holders in the FA Cup’s third round in January was not against a team who massed resolutely in their own territory.
—Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Hours earlier, Orban's supporters had massed in front of parliament on the country's annual commemoration of its 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule.
—Arkansas Online, 17 Mar. 2026
Similar health crises surfaced wherever immigration officers massed in the past year.
—Kate Wells, NPR, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
China’s military has unveiled a combat drone converted from a Soviet–era fighter jet, a development that could enable massed drone attacks in any future conflict over Taiwan.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
The King, 77, led members of his family in taking in the sights and cheers of the crowd massed below as Trooping the Colour had its grand finale on Saturday, June 13.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
Touch of Gold® Holly makes an eye-catching accent in borders and can be massed as a low hedge or tall groundcover.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Thousands more were massed outside the gates.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Soldiers massed around Central, crossing rifles to prevent the Black students, who would soon be immortalized as the Little Rock Nine, from entering the grounds.
—Daniel Felsenthal, Pitchfork, 4 Apr. 2026
The nectar plants should be massed together in groups of three and five by color.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 3 Apr. 2026
Yet their embarrassing 2-1 defeat at Macclesfield, from the sixth tier of football in England, as holders in the FA Cup’s third round in January was not against a team who massed resolutely in their own territory.
—Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Hours earlier, Orban's supporters had massed in front of parliament on the country's annual commemoration of its 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule.
—Arkansas Online, 17 Mar. 2026
Similar health crises surfaced wherever immigration officers massed in the past year.
—Kate Wells, NPR, 5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for massed
Adjective
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While many automakers go out of their way to make their hybrid offerings more visually distinctive, passers-by would be hard-pressed to tell whether the Carnival is a gasoline or a gasoline-electric model.—
Michael Harley,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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New York will be hard-pressed to continue scoring at that level in the championship.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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By looking into how errors accumulated and how deviant the answers were from those expected, the researchers were able to get valuable insights into how the physical system was working.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
9 June 2026
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The plant blooms only when sufficient energy is accumulated, making time between flowering unpredictable, spanning from a few years to more than a decade, according to the United States Botanic Garden.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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Lab testing showed that the candies had no illicit substances in them, but the waxy substance was found to contain THC and the crushed pills allegedly contained cocaine and fentanyl, state police wrote.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
13 June 2026
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Pour into a glass filled with crushed ice.—
Claudia Alarcón,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Since then, the orange legion has gathered at Henk's to watch the Dutch national team take the field.—
Dawn White,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
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Fans young and old gathered under the KC Live canopy Thursday to watch as Mexico beat South Africa 2-0.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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The accident has renewed concerns about overcrowded vehicles used for school runs in the southern African country of around 15 million people.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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Their servers may also be overcrowded.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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The roads of New Orleans are cluttered with serried ranks of billboards touting the services of personal-injury lawyers.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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New York must do better than its usual serried towers and clunky blocks; a new cast of leaders can look abroad to figure out how.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
16 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The bar offers wall-to-wall TVs, food, drinks and game day specials.—
DeJanay Booth-Singleton,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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Prefaced by audio of Peart talking about his life philosophy — holding onto his inner 16-year-old — the song was backed by wall-to-wall video of the drummer throughout his life.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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Whether Tuchel will, in fact, be able to produce a more intense high-pressing style this summer, given the climate and the dense schedule, is another matter.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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Visitors of historic New Castle are greeted with cobblestone streets, alleys, dense urbanism and a rich history that can only be found in a few other cities in the region.—
USA TODAY Network,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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“Massed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massed. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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