as in assembles
to bring together in one body or place
she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other
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As the group assembles in the Werk Room, Jewels, who won the bottom-two lip-sync against Arrietty, reads her sister's lipstick mirror message, which sends shockwaves through the room.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
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To describe this dystopian reality, Clapp assembles a narrative that is part history, part sociology, part horrifying travelogue.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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Dorothy's entourage accompanying her through Oz includes the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow, much like Michelle's trek gathers the Kid Cosmo robot, Keats, and the quirky size-swapping 'bot called Herman.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Its workforce is being slashed in half, and there have been deep cuts to the Office for Civil Rights and the Institute of Education Sciences, which gathers data on the nation’s academic progress.—
Chris Megerian,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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After allies use Basic ATK or Ultimate to attack enemy targets, every enemy target hit additionally accumulates 3 Grit Value for allies.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Three-way ties are determined by the lowest amount of seed points a team accumulates in its pool play victories.—
Darren Sabedra,
The Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Bulks (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulks%20%28up%29. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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