1
as in assembly
a body of people come together in one place
a muster of concerned citizens
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2
as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit
considering the muster of suggestions that were submitted for "word of the year"
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1
as in to summon
to assemble and make ready for action
a command to muster the troops
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2
as in to call
to bring together in assembly by or as if by command
all the supporters that I could muster for the fund-raising campaign
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3
as in to contain
to be made up of
the corps of regular wine drinkers musters only about 10% of the population
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Recent Examples of muster
Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
There are serious doubts as to whether such an ultimatum would pass legal muster.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 25 Feb. 2025
Josh Yohe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
This current battle will not be an easy one for Harvard, but Harvard is not alone—as pillars of civil society muster the courage to stand in unison so that Harvard does not have to fight for freedom of expression, intellectual inquiry, educational advancement, and research contributions alone.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 19 Apr. 2025
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Noun
And, depending on the moment, Canal musters up the occasional show of bravery.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
There are serious doubts as to whether such an ultimatum would pass legal muster.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
In two games against the Panthers, the Lightning have mustered all of two goals.
—Josh Yohe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
This current battle will not be an easy one for Harvard, but Harvard is not alone—as pillars of civil society muster the courage to stand in unison so that Harvard does not have to fight for freedom of expression, intellectual inquiry, educational advancement, and research contributions alone.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muster
Noun
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This was the 93rd EVA to be staged from the U.S. Quest airlock and the 275th overall in support of the assembly, maintenance and upgrade of the ISS, which has been continuously occupied by rotating astronaut crews since November 2000.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
1 May 2025
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Advertising around the 2025 Super Duty will emphasize its U.S. assembly.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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For instance, in 2015, Texas A&M scientists found that implanting electrodes into a cockroach's ganglion (the neuron cluster that controls its front legs) was remarkably effective at successfully steering the roaches 60 percent of the time.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
2 May 2025
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This year, the nominating committee left a cluster of prominent directors far from the spotlight.—
Scott Heller,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Around 250 cardinals were summoned to Italy for business, including the pope’s funeral and chief among their duties — electing the 267th head of the church.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Dance Mom is summoned over Ava’s objections to the stage.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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So Koester compiled a database that now contains more than 500,000 missing person searches dating back to the 1970s.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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In fact, some of his other works contain plenty of illustrations, especially for depicting species.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
2 May 2025
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The holiday household is rounded out by a fractious assemblage of relatives, employees, and lovers played by great actors like Clarke Peters, Jack Farthing, and Anjana Vasan.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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Spanning nearly two decades of work, the exhibition, currently on view at The Whitney Museum of American Art is an assemblage of close to 50 portraits that reimagine the American realist tradition by centering Black subjects in moments of stillness, style, and sovereign presence.—
Najha Zigbi-Johnson,
Essence,
30 Apr. 2025
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Compressor adds the ability to customize output settings and perform batch output jobs.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 May 2025
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With the right systems in place, brands can move from batch production to real-time content orchestration across markets, channels and formats.—
Gully Flowers,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
Verb
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His secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security reportedly will not, for now, recommend doing so, but the potential impact: mobilizing troops to round up immigrants in American neighborhoods.—
Kica Matos,
Time,
2 May 2025
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With the emergency declaration came a flood of federal resources, as the U.S. military was mobilized to assist Border Patrol agents.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2025
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Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).—
Keith Caulfield,
Billboard,
4 May 2025
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And that repeating first couplet — which comprises six of the poem’s 18 lines and occupied the first day of this challenge — will surely jingle in your pocket for a long time to come.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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“Muster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muster. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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