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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, 11 Sep. 2025
Russia and Ukraine exchange massed drone and missile strikes on a nightly basis.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
State troopers massed around him; later, he was led out of the capitol in handcuffs.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
The compact form of 'Kaleidoscope' Abelia is well suited to patio containers and looks fabulous massed as a tall groundcover or natural hedge.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
These metals are refined on site, ingots poured and stacked, barrels upon barrels massed neatly at the river port, ready for shipping.
—Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Japanese defense planners have studied pairing railguns with long-range intercept systems to strengthen layered air defense against threats such as hypersonic glide vehicles and massed drone swarms.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Russia and Ukraine exchange massed drone and missile strikes on a nightly basis.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
State troopers massed around him; later, he was led out of the capitol in handcuffs.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
The compact form of 'Kaleidoscope' Abelia is well suited to patio containers and looks fabulous massed as a tall groundcover or natural hedge.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
These metals are refined on site, ingots poured and stacked, barrels upon barrels massed neatly at the river port, ready for shipping.
—Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for massed
Verb
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Last week, a video of Hasan Piker reacting to the sight of Charlie Kirk getting shot during a discussion at Utah Valley University on Wednesday quickly accumulated millions of views.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Brunson won her first Emmy in 2022 for Outstanding Writing For a Comedy Series, and has accumulated 12 total nominations.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The oil is cold-pressed, so no heat or chemicals strip away its natural nutrients, which in turn deeply condition and soften strands.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
10 Sep. 2025
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Partner would be hard-pressed to find a bid at the five-level, so double covers many hands.—
Deb Harvell,
Arkansas Online,
31 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Young adults like all those who gathered to see Kirk on that sunny day.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The Red Sox offense was so quiet that in the bottom of the second, a large flock of birds gathered in a sunlit patch of center field grass at the edge of the warning track and remained there undisturbed for several minutes.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Pour ice and all into a big mug or glass, top with crushed ice, and garnish with a mint sprig and/or lime wedge or wheel.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
13 Sep. 2025
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Although the crushed velvet exteriors are the most eye-catching details of the shoes, there’s more to them than what meets the eye.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Some factors the team considered are if destinations are lesser known, investing in their tourism infrastructure or alternatives to the trending but overcrowded spots.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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However, across the pond at the London premiere of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Johnson’s sister in sheer dressing, Margot Robbie, was adding her own entry for Most-Naked Naked Dress to the overcrowded genre.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In lieu of the usual venue of the Dolby Theatre, where nominees and their guests sit elbow to elbow in serried ranks, this year’s edition was held in Los Angeles’s cavernous Union Station.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2021
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No one had lined us up in serried, uniform ranks, no one had demanded an oath or a membership—or anything more than the spirit of DIY.—
Jonathan Myerson,
The New York Review of Books,
4 May 2020
Adjective
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Experience vibrant fight-night energy on wall-to-wall TVs with no cover charge.—
Nasha Smith,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Get in the game with wall-to-wall college football coverage on Fubo.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This happens when its dense stellar corpse is close enough to its companion star to allow its gravity to begin stripping away the partner's stellar material.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The resulting configuration provides much denser storage than conventional all flash parallel file systems.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Massed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massed. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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