assembles

present tense third-person singular of assemble
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as in summons
to bring together in assembly by or as if by command we assembled the club members to decide who would be traveling with whom on the trip

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Recent Examples of assembles This business context foundation maps the relationships across content, people, projects, systems and domain knowledge, then assembles the unique context each AI agent needs to do its job. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Much like an engine compresses fuel before ignition, FLARE first assembles the fuel to high density before delivering a separate, rapid burst of energy to trigger fusion. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026 Here, too, Sussman assembles a formidable catalogue of impediments. — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 The plant assembles some of Ford's most profitable vehicles, including the F-Series Super Duty and Lincoln Navigator. — Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026 The Iberseries & Platino Industria confab in Madrid has launched the Euro-Atlantic Series Co-Pro Pitch Program, which assembles a cross-section of mainly European TV projects that seek to advance their development. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026 Caron Technology designs and assembles various preparation systems that operate before the cutting process. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026 The mystery comedy feature Defensive follows Clarence (McCartney), an overly aggressive basketball fanatic who assembles an unlikely team of amateur detectives to stop a corrupt businessman from destroying their beloved community center. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026 The Progress Center assembles the workhorse vehicle for Russia, the Soyuz-2 vehicle, as well as the newer Soyuz-5 rocket. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assembles
Verb
  • Water that gathers above the protective liner on the stacks will be treated as regular stormwater and drain into Tampa Bay, Donica explained.
    — Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The cameras mounted by Flock and two major competitors, Rekor and Axon, are only small pieces of the technological net that gathers data on movements, consumer habits, employment and other things, most of it collected privately.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In minutes, Bartlett had sketched the makeshift shrine that Helga builds for Arnold in her closet.
    — Darryn King, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Surrounded by its own garden, the restaurant builds much of its menu upon a base of herbs and vegetables, like kale and carrots harvested mere steps from the open-concept kitchen.
    — Nikkita Nair, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • On the politics, his statement summons a legacy-killing disaster by wagering that nothing will go wrong, when something likely will go wrong during his presidency.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • King drops elephants through the air, erects wobbly Towers of Babel, lets characters run amok with depictions of her own pencils, and then summons a hand with a knife to clear a clean space on the page.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Dual-arm robots handle parcels around a conveyor and fold clothing on a work surface, while a humanoid moves through a furnished environment and collects laundry.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Contacts Backup collects your contacts but doesn’t store them in your My Avira dashboard.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Some determine whether a firm meets baseline requirements; others are weighted to determine its place in the final ranking.
    — Kelli Grant, CFP®,Riley de León, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The audience meets Carrie, meek and childlike, on her first day of school.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Through artifacts spanning 5,000 years, the exhibition constructs an extraordinary history of fashion and the body—material, carnal, vulnerable, seductive, devotional, fragmented—and its transpositions into various expressive languages.
    — Judith Clark, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Hur judiciously constructs scene after scene that pulls and pushes the various probes closer to and further from the mysterious truth, which feels at once obscured and hidden in plain sight.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Catherine’s story line evokes a feverish what-if scenario in which a survivor musters the requisite recklessness, talent for murder, and wig collection to mete out retribution.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
  • Every writer on our longlist brilliantly musters the power of words on the page to take the reader to new places, to see old places from new angles, to change minds.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 28 July 2026
Verb
  • Speakers noted the Republican nominee's oil and gas investments as the energy sector amasses profits while the Iran war drives up fuel costs.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Kang amasses writings from over the course of her career, beginning with her Nobel lecture and reaching deep into her life’s documents, with diaries, poems, and photographs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026

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“Assembles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assembles. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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