round up
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Now they also realize they “don’t want these excesses, don’t want the federal government to come in and round up everyone, especially people that don’t have a criminal past.”
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
When Saint Mary’s dropped its football program, he called the East Bay school not only to recruit players but to round up equipment that would otherwise go unused.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Mr. Weidensaul’s well-timed effort to round up good news shows that there is indeed hope for endangered birds across the planet—and that saving them also saves the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Such missives resembled the way royal press officers would round up a day of engagements on a royal tour, except these were with language free of convention and formality.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
During that last summer they had ridden across these flats to round up the speckled cattle and brand the calves.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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