rounds up

verb

present tense third-person singular of round up
as in assembles
to bring together in one body or place rounded everyone up for one final training session

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Recent Examples of rounds up An InStyle editor rounds up eight chic ways to style the elevated neutral this season. — Amanda Le, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026 With lower fuel costs being just one of the potential perks of going electric, CNBC Select rounds up some of the most important resources for those considering an electric vehicle. — Liz Knueven,ryley Amond, CNBC, 24 July 2026 Subscribe here to our newsletter In Review by David Ehrlich, in which our Chief Film Critic and Head Reviews Editor rounds up the best new reviews and streaming picks along with some exclusive musings — all only available to subscribers. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 July 2026 Bud Kennedy’s Eats Beat column rounds up steakhouse splurges, Stockyards classics and a barbecue experience worth booking before the day arrives. — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2026 Today’s newsletter rounds up stories about stepping away from daily life and then coming back to it. — Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026 The sixth Scary Movie rounds up a murderer's row of comics, actors, and musicians of the moment for cameos and surprise appearances that, well, are better left as surprises. — Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026 But when George turns up dead one day on his rural English farm, Lily rounds up her flock to investigate his likely murder, which leads them to an eccentric group of human suspects (played by Nicholas Braun, Molly Gordon and Hong Chau, among others). — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 7 May 2026 CharlotteFive recently broke down the city’s best breakfast spots — bougie and budget — while a separate guiide rounds up 30-plus restaurants still serving food past midnight. — Charlotte Observer, 28 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rounds up
  1. assembles
  2. collects
  3. gathers
  4. groups
  5. amasses
  6. accumulates
  7. corrals
  8. garners
Verb
  • The network team follows one pattern, the cloud team follows another, and the SRE team assembles a timeline under pressure from multiple dashboards.
    — Kannan Kothandaraman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • All the while, Myers assembles a possible titan in Philly, and the Warriors are left staring down the pipe at another depressing play-in tournament exit at absolute best.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
Definition of assembles
Verb
  • The rule takes effect immediately, even as the agency collects public comments.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 30 July 2026
  • The system collects readings every 100 milliseconds from roughly 300 sensors on each machine, using time-series anomaly detection and graph neural networks to detect abnormal operating conditions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026
Definition of collects
Verb
  • Jack gathers with those who have Parkinson’s to talk through issues and feelings.
    — Nicole Borman, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
  • At night, pretty much everyone gathers around the fire pits and hangs out.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
Definition of gathers
Verb
  • Because humans can readily resolve patterns in motion — when points move in the same direction, the brain groups them into a unified whole — the moving dots appear as faint letters.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of groups
Verb
  • Kang amasses writings from over the course of her career, beginning with her Nobel lecture and reaching deep into her life’s documents, with diaries, poems, and photographs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • The Texas native collects coveted roles and franchise parts like Thanos amasses Infinity Stones or Tom Hanks stockpiles vintage typewriters.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Mar. 2026
Definition of amasses
Verb
  • Every piece of content must serve as a culturally relevant entry point that accumulates brand equity, especially when day-to-day audience engagement can be largely random.
    — Stefano Marrone, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Tennis players with wrist pain are often enduring tendonitis, which is inflammation of the tendons, or tenosynovitis, when fluid accumulates in the sheath that protects that tendon.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 July 2026
Definition of accumulates
Verb
  • Goodman’s prose is clear rather than complex, and carefully calibrated to each of her characters; the book’s form corrals the natural speed of her sentences into act-length shapes that one moves around in one’s head like puzzle pieces.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • The map accompanying Gallagher’s resolution corrals the state’s population centers — like the Bay Area, San Diego, Los Angeles and Sacramento — into one state.
    — Lauren Chapman, Sacbee.com, 26 May 2026
Definition of corrals
Verb
  • As the son of NBA’s all-time leading scorer LeBron James, Bronny James’s relationship with girlfriend Parker Whitfield (whose father is The Cosby Show actor Dondré Whitfield) garners a lot of eyes.
    — Ayana Herndon, InStyle, 25 July 2026
  • The idea garners rare bipartisan interest, potentially providing AI companies legitimacy and addressing public anxiety about the technology's future impact.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of garners

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“Rounds up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rounds%20up. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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