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amassing

noun as in accrual

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noun as in amassment

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From the time he moved to remote Michigan, he brought the world to him, amassing thousands of books and corresponding with the savants who resonated the most — Garrett Hardin, the ecologist from University of California, Santa Barbara, and Richard Lamm, the environmentalist and three-term governor of Colorado, among them.

From Salon

The interception shut down a promising start to the second half for the Browns, who went 66 yards in 14 plays on the drive after amassing just 57 yards in the first half.

You could fill Madison Square Garden and the Ellipse with the number of stories focused on where male energy is amassing in this election.

Leveraging identity politics for campaign cash is nothing new, but amassing a bunch of white guys to counter Donald Trump’s core messaging is genius.

In the waning days ahead of another election where democracy—oh, and by the way, fascism— are demonstrably on the ballot, as we await the much-vaunted “October Surprise” that could somehow break the fever hold of denialism around Trump’s moral and political and cognitive failings, we seem to have forgotten that the very idea of amassing evidence and putting on proof is now fully antiquated.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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