rounded up

verb

past tense of round up
as in collected
to bring together in one body or place rounded everyone up for one final training session

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Recent Examples of rounded up Evan rounded up the spiciest dishes in Charlotte — and two of them come with an actual waiver. — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026 The Bee rounded up Sacramento’s 10 most distinctive burgers, from Gami Burger’s customizable Asian-fusion smash burger to Historic Star Lounge’s dry-aged Flannery Beef burger inspired by New York’s Minetta Tavern. — Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026 Once the players peeled themselves off the grass after the final whistle, Mauricio Pochettino rounded up the team on the field for one more speech, imploring the group to continue believing in the future. — Tom Bogert, New York Times, 15 July 2026 Here, our editors have rounded up seven things that good Southern hosts always have on hand for unexpected guests. — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 July 2026 After October 7th, thousands were rounded up, bused to Ramallah, and dispersed across West Bank cities. — Nirit Peled, New Yorker, 26 June 2026 As part of the proposal, prices would be rounded up to the nearest whole dollar, and the price of a regional monthly pass would go up $10 to $165. — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2026 Big Shoulders, to whom the Dean & Barbara White Foundation brought the project, rounded up 50 Andrean High School students to help, said Dan Kozlowski, the fund’s Northwest Indiana executive director. — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026 Huff Post rounded up some of Fey's best parenting quotes. — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rounded up
  1. collected
  2. assembled
  3. gathered
  4. accumulated
  5. grouped
  6. amassed
  7. garnered
Verb
  • Instead of trying to locate bears in the wild, the survey relies on hair samples collected in barbed wire traps, which can be used to identify individual bears based on their DNA.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Steelers outgained Green Bay 385-160 and collected yardage in huge chunks at times on plays that had receivers running wide open against a vanilla defense more focused on fundamentals than elaborate schemes for a game that didn't count.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of collected
Verb
  • Shuttle missions deployed and serviced satellites, launched the Hubble Space Telescope, assembled much of the International Space Station, and flew 135 missions over three decades.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
  • That mind is a model, an enormous statistical object assembled by feeding it a quantity of text and images nobody has ever fully itemized.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • Photos capture the high-energy of Outside Lands, where 225,000 festivalgoers—75,000 per day—gathered in Golden Gate Park for a three-day celebration of music, culture, and community.
    — Ray Chavez, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The organization created a site for her story with all the information the family had gathered over the years.
    — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathered
Verb
  • After years on a downward slope, surplus funds are paying down a pension debt accumulated over seven decades, the state’s rainy-day fund is full, state projects are receiving support, and the state’s credit was upgraded several times since 2020.
    — Elona Vaisnys, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Harvey accumulated 121 total tackles, four picks, 28 passes deflections as well as forced and recovered a pair of fumbles.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of accumulated
Verb
  • Some tell a coherent story when grouped; others are simply strange on their own terms.
    — Scott White, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Those metrics were then grouped into three categories — Cost & Financing, Education Outcomes and Career Outcomes — to determine each state's overall score.
    — Ahmed Jawadi, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouped
Verb
  • Progressive streamer Hasan Piker has amassed millions of followers on social media for his daily live streams, which often last up to eight hours, giving him the unique ability to connect Democratic candidates with his loyal following.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The duo had amassed hundreds of Funko Pop figurines, organizing their personal collection within the rental home.
    — Sarah Glodek, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of amassed
Verb
  • Shelton cruised from there, mixing his primary weapons in with athletic defense that garnered big reactions from the Montreal crowd and deflated Nakashima even more.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The young man has garnered immense public support rarely seen for a defendant accused of murder, amid frustration felt by many Americans over exorbitant health insurance costs.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of garnered

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“Rounded up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rounded%20up. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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