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 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 Ponies at this park are regularly rounded up and auctioned off in the fall to manage population numbers. — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 17 June 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, 14 June 2026 The difficulty in obtaining visas and the fear of being rounded up by immigration agents are being blamed, in part, for less-than-expected tourist traffic. — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 Ordinary Belarusians who took part in protests were rounded up and prosecuted, landing hundreds in the country’s notoriously brutal jails, while key opposition figures were imprisoned or forced into exile. — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 30 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rounded up
  1. collected
  2. assembled
  3. gathered
  4. accumulated
  5. grouped
  6. amassed
  7. garnered
Verb
  • Signatures for the Perkins recall were collected in two batches.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • Jersey Mike’s has filed for an initial public offering, and its disclosures reveal just how much its founder and former CEO Peter Cancro and his family collected in compensation and other perks.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 July 2026
Definition of collected
Verb
  • Dondi assembled a small but mighty team and established swim lanes.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Luke Gennaro of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry said the exhibit was assembled on short notice after volunteers scrambled to secure donations from businesses across the state.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • The community gathered to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.
    — Del Mar Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2026
  • Mourners gathered in Islamic Revolution Square for Khamenei's funeral procession chant slogans Monday.
    — Marc Smith, NBC news, 6 July 2026
Definition of gathered
Verb
  • In Gaza City alone, around 25 million tons of debris have accumulated, Mohanna said.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Look for areas where dry, brown grass has accumulated on the lawn and use a rake to remove or de-thatch it.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
Definition of accumulated
Verb
  • Fish and other tiny critters get grouped together in the remaining shallow puddles.
    — Alex Harris July 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
  • Council members approved the compensation agreement and authorized project expenditures as part of the June 30 consent agenda, meaning the actions were considered routine and grouped alongside other items for approval with minimal discussion.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
Definition of grouped
Verb
  • Volatile, quarrelsome, dogmatic, and sure of his own brilliance, Reinhold outraged patrons, amassed huge debts, and turned his eldest son into an exhausted workhorse.
    — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
  • The Italian jockey, who famously went through the card with seven winners in seven races at Ascot in September 1996, has amassed more than 3,350 victories in his career, mostly in England.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of amassed
Verb
  • Why LLMs struggle with spreadsheets Part of why structured data has garnered less attention is a very human bias, argues Boris van Breugel, a senior AI researcher based in Amsterdam.
    — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026
  • The 10-mile Underline project, which garnered extensive public and political support, has been managed by the county public works and transportation department at a construction cost nearing $150 million.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
Definition of garnered

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