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round up

verb as in collect, gather

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In a recent conversation, Long asked Jin about the risk that a worst-case scenario would come to pass, with all of the church’s leadership rounded up.

Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management approved a plan to round up and remove hundreds of wild horses roaming beyond the roughly 200,000 acres designated for them along the California and Nevada border.

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She’s also seen rounding up as many immigrants as possible in raids, shouting orders like, “If it’s brown, it goes down.”

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Masked migra swept across Southern California under the pretense of rounding up criminals.

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Last March, that’s what Democratic voters were clamoring for when Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rounded up votes to defeat the filibuster, infuriating the base and many of his own senators.

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