ROUNDING UP Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

rounding up

verb

Definition of rounding up next

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 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 Across the Twin Cities, federal immigration enforcement operations have turned businesses into sites of confrontation — with agents in store parking lots rounding up day laborers, armed raids on restaurants and work authorization inspections conducted in tactical gear. —

Alessandro Piazza, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026 While tens of millions of Americans do support shutting down and securing our borders while rounding up dangerous criminals who have entered our nation illegally, many are also deeply troubled to see moms and dads being pulled out of a Home Depot or a Walmart in sight of their crying children. —

Douglas MacKinnon, Boston Herald, 20 Jan. 2026 In some cases, rounding up would mean cash-paying customers would pay more, if just by a few cents. —

Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026 The death and conflicting accounts have intensified scrutiny into the conditions of immigration jails at a time when the government has been rounding up immigrants in large numbers around the country and detaining them at facilities like the one in El Paso where Lunas Campos died. —

Michael Biesecker, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026

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The suspect spent weeks planning the attack, eventually assembling Molotov cocktails and conducting surveillance of Kiswani’s residence, according to federal complaint documents.

— Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
In wars lasting a month or so with relatively low casualty rates, managing massive ammunition consumption, assembling and training replacements, and renewing equipment losses during a war, not after it, are simply not issues.

— Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026