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[gath-er] / ˈgæð ər /






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Delegates from around the globe will gather in the Turkish resort town of Antalya next month for the annual COP gathering.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Compromised cameras include license-plate readers and security cameras near strategic sites and places where soldiers gather, including military outposts in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Williams plans to continue using Hubble over the next several years to investigate these questions and gather enough observations to begin building meaningful statistics about this unusual class of celestial objects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

The announcement comes as Conservative members gather for the party's annual conference in Birmingham.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The boys gather around Harlow as she opens her own birthday gift.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

They found that the same molecular machinery also gathers at the exact location where a dying cell comes into contact with the tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026

In a kind of treasure hunt, Crouch gathers all the acorns on private lands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

And I was moved: He is a boy who in crisis gathers information not only for himself but to tell people what happened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Then it gathers shape and speed: water, mud, boulders, ice and rock surging down the valley.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

I carry the box over to the popcorn counter, and while everyone gathers around, I unwrap my running leg.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

"We do not seek hegemony, nor do we seek to dominate others," Lai said in his annual address in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei where thousands of people, including foreign diplomats, were gathered.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Comedian Romesh Ranganathan joked that his mum was going to "absolutely hate this", as the the group gathered in a chant led by the booming voice of big dog actor Michael Sheen.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The researchers propose that after the star expelled this chemically enriched material, some of it gathered together and eventually formed a gas giant planet.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

In Durban, in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, protesters gathered outside a government refugee reception centre demanding that it stop accepting asylum applications.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The walls were lined with shelves and crammed with jars of all shapes and colors, gathered from Deadwood Dump and filled with dried fungi.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Delegates from around the globe will gather in the Turkish resort town of Antalya next month for the annual COP gathering.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

More than 65,000 immigrants were detained nationwide as of July, according to TRAC, a data gathering and research organization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

In what unions have billed as Act Four of the three-week movement, some 71,000 people staged protests across the country on Thursday, with 24,000 gathering at the Bastille in Paris.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The idea was to reflect a new mission for this annual gathering of industry bigwigs: to “find low-carbon solutions for the world’s energy challenges.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

An American embassy official brought the envelope to a diplomatic gathering, the kind of party Penkovsky usually attended.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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