rounding up

present participle of round up

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rounding up Multiple videos shared online over the past three days show RSF fighters rounding up and killing large numbers of unarmed people. Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025 While the proposal is palatable to businesses, rounding up could be costly for consumers. Ken Sweet, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025 Bloomingdale’s annual philanthropic partnerships include No Kid Hungry, where customers can contribute by rounding up their in-store purchases to the nearest dollar or by adding a donation at online checkout. Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025 Similar deployments in other cities have led to rounding up of undocumented immigrants. David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025 Courtesy of Cepee Tabibian In Spain, where service staff earn fairer wages, rounding up or leaving a few coins at restaurants is a small token of appreciation, not an expectation. Cepee Tabibian, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025 People at the rallies don’t want ICE agents rounding up fellow Portlanders. Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025 For Robbie Pfeffer of Playboy Manbaby, there’s more to putting on a music festival than rounding up a bunch of bands. Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025 But that didn’t stop him from rounding up a group of 25 or 30 friends from their hometown in Jalisco, Mexico. Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rounding up
Verb
  • The exhilarating Christmas Eve in Miller's Point wastes no time in assembling its massive cast of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws, and pet lizards.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Tony Vitello will be tasked with assembling a new group of pitching coaches.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The United States and France first warned more than a decade ago that Russian satellites appeared to be spying and collecting information on their assets, including on commercially run satellites.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Those instruments stayed grounded during Melissa, while other instruments and drones collecting forecast information were deployed.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Fans refused to let the brand die quietly, turning a shuttered company into a social-media cause, gathering on a Facebook page titled Please Bring Back La Tiara Taco Shells.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Countries are gathering in Brazil at the COP30 summit to take stock of climate change.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The show debuted at #3 on the iTunes Comedy Charts, amassing hundreds of thousands of subscribers in its first year.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The video went viral, amassing over 2 million views.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • South Africa is already an important global actor, as a member of the G-20 and an early member of the BRICS grouping alongside Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
    Amaka Anku, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For the annual Mansion in May show house, design firm Toledo Geller divided a long garden-level room with a pair of back-to-back sofas, grouping small card tables for tournaments on one side and a single pedestal table for cozier game nights on the other.
    Catherine Hong, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Running back Ryan Walters was just shy of 100 yards picking up 99 on 16 carries.
    Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025
  • While reflecting on her first performance, Furtado remembered buying the pink dress from a store called Original on Queen West in Toronto, and also picking up some sparkly platform shoes for the monumental moment.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The colder conditions will raise the potential for accumulating snow across parts of the Midwest and the Appalachians, including areas farther south and at lower elevations than usual, AccuWeather said.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Detroit could also see accumulating snowfall from Sunday morning into midday, possibly affecting busy urban and highway traffic routes.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Rounding up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rounding%20up. Accessed 22 Nov. 2025.

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