ROUNDING UP Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

rounding up

verb

present participle of round up

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 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. —

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. —

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. —

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. —

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 Many retailers are just rounding up or down to the nearest 0- or 5-cent mark in their prices to make change. —

Erika Tulfo, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026

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As a row of kids delighted in mixing cotton candy and frozen lemonade into an only-at-the-ballpark dessert, the usher alerted the parents that a mass of boisterous and predominantly shirtless men soon would be assembling in a nearby section.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Somewhere a hand was raised, a whistle was blown, and all at once the butchers were out of their stalls, assembling in the aisles.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026