gathering
Example Sentences
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“If anyone can do something, by all means go for it,” the president told a gathering of students and academics in early December.
Now in towns across America, these volunteer-led gatherings invite people to bring in broken household items—a toaster, a lamp, a bike—and participants use their skills to repair them.
Geoengineering experiments to reduce the Earth’s temperature with aerosols and modify ocean acidity are gathering pace.
Movie theatres were seen as spaces for gatherings that were difficult to control.
From Barron's
Their uncle said that the pair had been gathering firewood for their disabled father when they were killed.
From BBC
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