as in to collect
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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The following burglaries are from reports collected from the Little Rock Police Department.—
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Since then, she's collected 45 years' worth of passport stamps, crossing off destinations like Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Thailand, Bhutan, Morocco, and Kenya on her travel wish list.—
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The plane’s fuselage and extra-long wing section were trucked separately from the cannery to Dutch Flats, where the aircraft was finally assembled and fine-tuned.—
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The $30 million, 110-foot Pegasus arrived in South Florida in pieces from China and Germany and assembled on site in 2014.—
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Investigators gathered images from surveillance video that prosecutors said showed Thurman’s face and submitted them to Illinois’ facial recognition program, which led to his identification.—
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The roving raids targeting car washes, parking lots where day laborers gather and garment factories disrupted immigrant communities throughout the region for weeks in June and July.—
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One notable example was an early morning raid of a Chicago apartment building in October last year in which armed federal agents rappelled from helicopters, kicking down doors and throwing flash bang grenades, rounding up adults and screaming children alike.—
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Community members can support the campaign through tax-deductible donations administered by the El Dorado Community Foundation, rounding up purchases at the register, or settling membership equity balances.—
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Points will accumulate for 10 straight races in the playoffs, so technically a driver could clinch a championship before the final race was ever run.—
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This friction causes the surface of the lens to accumulate and store a large amount of negative static electricity.—
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Besides all of this, the January crunch stems from the Wayback machine, to the coaches seeking a way to corral their entire roster on campus long before the first game kicks off.—
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Unlike previous iterations of Fear Factor, which featured new contestants in every episode, House of Fear will corral its 14 contestants under the same roof, Big Brother-style.—
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Beattey believes that the exposure may not have happened so early had his daughter not been grouped with older grades.—
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The fair regularly draws a global crowd of exhibitors and buyers; grouped under the umbrella of the Texpertise Network, Messe Frankfurt’s international events attract some 23,000 exhibitors and 500,000 trade visitors annually.—
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Social media users agreed that the video was hilarious, with the post garnering about 850,000 views and 150,000 likes.—
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The work also garnered shortlists for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and British Book Awards’ Fiction Book of the Year.—
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“Bulk (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulk%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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