as in assembling
to bring together in one body or place
rounded everyone up for one final training session
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Recent Examples of rounding up
On July 8, the Inyo National Forest will begin rounding up horses from the Montgomery Pass herd roaming beyond the roughly 200,000 acres designated for them along the California-Nevada border, according to a recent news release.
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Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
Yes, those officials said, federal agents will be on hand at the venues, but, no, ICE won’t be rounding up soccer fans.
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Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
Restaurants close all the time around here, so much so that rounding up these closings is a regular feature in the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
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Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
6 May 2026
For the Hulls and their neighbors, the work continues — rounding up cattle, repairing what can be saved and relying on a community that showed up without being asked.
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Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
15 Apr. 2026
Steves also recommends skipping tips at casual counter service spots, rounding up taxi fares and giving small tips to guides and hotel staff.
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Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2026
Yet another new study about the eating practice seeks to put doubts to rest after rounding up data from 22 randomized clinical trials.
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New Atlas,
1 Mar. 2026
Desta said that the Minsk police were going from apartment to apartment, rounding up migrants who had failed to cross and sending some to detention facilities to await deportation; others have been sent to the Russian border and conscripted into the Army, to fight in Ukraine.
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Elizabeth Flock,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
California cities can now charge businesses for the hassle of rounding up their carts.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
Yes, those officials said, federal agents will be on hand at the venues, but, no, ICE won’t be rounding up soccer fans.
—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
Restaurants close all the time around here, so much so that rounding up these closings is a regular feature in the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
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Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
6 May 2026
For the Hulls and their neighbors, the work continues — rounding up cattle, repairing what can be saved and relying on a community that showed up without being asked.
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Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
15 Apr. 2026
Steves also recommends skipping tips at casual counter service spots, rounding up taxi fares and giving small tips to guides and hotel staff.
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Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2026
Yet another new study about the eating practice seeks to put doubts to rest after rounding up data from 22 randomized clinical trials.
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New Atlas,
1 Mar. 2026
Desta said that the Minsk police were going from apartment to apartment, rounding up migrants who had failed to cross and sending some to detention facilities to await deportation; others have been sent to the Russian border and conscripted into the Army, to fight in Ukraine.
—
Elizabeth Flock,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
California cities can now charge businesses for the hassle of rounding up their carts.
—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rounding up
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Erika Bahr, founder and CEO of Daxe, had spent over a year assembling this coalition, intentionally collapsing the walls between every stakeholder in women’s economic participation into a single room.
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This unique telescope is using the world’s largest digital camera to scan the entire southern sky every few nights, assembling what will become the most lavishly detailed time-lapse of the cosmos humanity has ever envisioned.
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At donation centers across Miami-Dade County, members of the Venezuelan community are collecting supplies for victims while anxiously waiting for news from home.
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The government argued both that Chatrie had tacitly agreed to Google collecting the information and that Chatrie had no reasonable expectation of privacy in third-party Google’s records.
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The intuitive Moon in your 10th House of Career and Status squares information-gathering Mercury in your 7th House of Partnership, pulling leadership choices into relational focus.
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Similar storm-clouds are now gathering around Sánchez, a canny politician known for outwitting his opponents.
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Since SpaceX, which Musk founded, began amassing the orbital satellite constellation in 2019, Starlink has become known for providing service to areas around the world where internet access is often elusive.
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With the passage of Thursday’s law, both sides have agreed to pull their respective measures from the November ballot, halting campaigns that had both parties amassing tens of millions in funding and blanketing the airwaves with ads.
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Unlike standalone projects developed individually, Lightshift is grouping the installations into a larger portfolio.
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The Batch Zero framework aims to speed up the study process by grouping qualified projects of at least 75 MW into one study so ERCOT can assess demand, allocate grid capacity and identify transmission upgrades.
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Especially at Louisville, just making that big jump, picking up full court, just being a dog, being scrappy, getting through screens, just everything like that.
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Reese looked cooked after picking up four quick fouls in the first half, spending way too much time riding the pine.
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More women are inheriting wealth, accumulating it earlier and making investment decisions independently.
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And while the images of crowded fountains and shuttered schools dominate the headlines, the economic damage is already accumulating in ways most employers and policymakers have barely begun to reckon with.
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“Rounding up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rounding%20up. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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