gather
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By helping her gather these documents, you’ll be providing a bit of relief and preventing bad surprises when she’s grieving.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
We needed to stop for a little bit and gather our thoughts, reflect on our career and all that we have done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The teenagers launched an online survey to gather more views on their plan and hosted a panel event with politicians, campaigners and young people.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Jennifer Nevins, CEO of Savor.us, created a 100-page guidebook to help families work through aging-related conversations and gather important documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The sailors were fixing to gather down below to decide what to do.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
The project gathers reports and location data from people who say they have experienced the sound.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Recent surveys show Netanyahu’s path to another premiership is narrowing as a patchwork of opposition parties gathers momentum, but political analysts say it is still anybody’s game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
After returning from her final visit to Saudi Arabia, Korkejian wrote album opener “On My Own” — a piano ballad cradled by a quivering Mellotron as a full band gradually gathers around her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
“We were hunters and gathers since early man, now the food is at the corner.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
Vincent gathers his brushes and his paints, his canvases and his easels, all the painting supplies he’d taken to Drenthe from The Hague, and he walks.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
US lawmakers gathered beneath the Capitol dome Tuesday to honor Republican senator Lindsey Graham, beginning a day of mourning set to draw President Donald Trump and world leaders to Washington.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
They compared those reports with data gathered in later months and years by the IMT School team.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Marvel faithful gathered in Hall H once more as San Diego Comic-Con yielded breaking news on Saturday: Ryan Gosling will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as motorcycle-riding superhero Ghost Rider.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
In Folkestone, Kent, the rain stayed away for the hundreds that gathered by the seafront.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The very much alive polar bear stayed in the snow on his back as Sun Girl and the Pack gathered around him.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
The concept of "coolcations" -- vacations in a cooler clime -- has been gathering pace in recent years and appears to have exploded in 2026.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
But despite such cases, North Korea is underequipped in intelligence gathering, lacking an extensive international web of spies and tools such as a global satellite network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
No counterculture event is more shrouded in hype than this annual gathering of thrill-seekers, Instagram influencers, billionaires and whichever artists can still afford to attend.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
The agency “has just ignored the law,” said Susan Long, co-founder of TRAC, a data gathering and research organization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
After about a mile, Jonah realized that Mr. Hodge was gathering everyone together at the front of the line.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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