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to bring together in one body or place
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Recent Examples of rounded up
So, in honor of the ever-expanding canon of Halloween hits, Billboard recently rounded up the 25 biggest songs in the nightmarish niche based on chart performance.
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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025
In a series of early morning raids on Wednesday, federal and state authorities rounded up six members of two Sureño gangs whose members have come up time and time again in some of the East Bay’s most shocking crimes of recent memory.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Newsweek has rounded up what several polls are saying about Mikie Sherrill’s chances of winning the New Jersey election.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The court found his office wrongly rounded up Latinos in search of people in the country illegally.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2025
If raking feels like a losing battle, the shopping editors at NBC Select rounded up the best leaf blowers to make yard cleanup faster and easier.
—Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
Not loving America is not doing anything while good people are rounded up in the streets of America, and children are zip-tied.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
Despite launching a solo attack from 82km out from the finish, United States champion Quinn Simmons (Lidl Trek) finished in fourth, overtaken by Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) who rounded up the podium.
—Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Anyone living in one of the dozens of surrounding villages, such as Nazareth, who was not rounded up must have cowered in fear behind closed doors or hidden in the various underground cisterns and hewn chambers beneath the ancient houses and courtyards of the Jewish villages.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025
In a series of early morning raids on Wednesday, federal and state authorities rounded up six members of two Sureño gangs whose members have come up time and time again in some of the East Bay’s most shocking crimes of recent memory.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Newsweek has rounded up what several polls are saying about Mikie Sherrill’s chances of winning the New Jersey election.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The court found his office wrongly rounded up Latinos in search of people in the country illegally.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2025
If raking feels like a losing battle, the shopping editors at NBC Select rounded up the best leaf blowers to make yard cleanup faster and easier.
—Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
Not loving America is not doing anything while good people are rounded up in the streets of America, and children are zip-tied.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
Despite launching a solo attack from 82km out from the finish, United States champion Quinn Simmons (Lidl Trek) finished in fourth, overtaken by Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) who rounded up the podium.
—Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Anyone living in one of the dozens of surrounding villages, such as Nazareth, who was not rounded up must have cowered in fear behind closed doors or hidden in the various underground cisterns and hewn chambers beneath the ancient houses and courtyards of the Jewish villages.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rounded up
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According to electoral tallies collected by the opposition, which CNN’s analysis found to be legitimate, Maduro won about 30% of the vote in last year’s election.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Monthly revenue climbed from $7 billion in January to $30 billion by September, culminating in a total annual tariff collection of $195 billion—nearly $118 billion (or 150%) more than the $77 billion collected in 2024.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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It is considered one of the greatest offenses ever assembled, as Durant joined forces with sharpshooters Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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Key producer Sonia Friedman, working with StudioCanal and Eliza Lumley Productions on behalf of Universal Music UK, has assembled an award-winning team to collaborate with Sheppard, Kane and Pye.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The attendees—thirty- and forty-somethings who are members of the bank’s Private Wealth Management (PWM) division, which boasts an average account size of over $75 million—gathered to hash out their anxiety and excitement.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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About 200 protesters gathered near a park near Aston Villa Park’s Trinity Road stand.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Most of that snowfall accumulated on grassy and elevated surfaces.—
David Ferrara,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
10 Nov. 2025
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Including some garbage time stats, the Steelers’ offense accumulated only 221 yards and recorded 11 first downs in 12 drives.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Competitive sections for features, documentaries, and shorts each comprise 16 titles, while retrospectives, restorations, and regional premieres are grouped into three out-of-competition strands of 24 films.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Sixteen years ago, food scientists in Brazil created a new system called Nova, which grouped foods into four ascending health categories based on processing.—
David A. Brenner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Nov. 2025
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Thiago Magalhaes amassed over 200 yards and three touchdowns for Whitman-Hanson in a 34-13 win over New Bedford.—
Tyler McManus,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this week that Russia had amassed some 170,000 troops in the region to bolster the Pokrovsk offensive.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Even if Sabrina got away with most of Short n’ Sweet, for example, her Man’s Best Friend album cover garnered a level of controversy that honestly felt overblown.—
Christopher Claxton,
Billboard,
4 Nov. 2025
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Along with gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, this local off-year election has garnered national attention and is considered representative of political headwinds ahead of the 2026 midterms.—
Emily Chang,
ABC News,
4 Nov. 2025
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