ingathering 1 of 2

noun

as in assembly
a body of people come together in one place before an ingathering of local members of the clergy the mayor addressed some of the problems facing the city

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verb

present participle of ingather
as in gathering

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingathering
  1. assembly
  2. gathering
  3. assemblage
  4. assembling
  5. conference
  6. collecting
  7. meeting
  8. clustering
Noun
  • Julien Puyou, Airbus’ Widebody Program head, stressed that the flight marked the culmination of years of engineering, testing, and assembly.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The battery assembly is the only part of the AirPods 5 that earned major praise from iFixit, but there’s a catch there as well.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of assembly
Verb
  • Managers spend more time gathering information than coaching their teams.
    — Kylie Fuentes, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The property also has a movie theater, a resort-style pool area, and multiple spaces for gathering both indoors and out.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of gathering
Noun
  • For decades, the Smithsonian Institution, which draws some 15 million visitors every year to its assemblage of 21 museums — bounty that has no real global peer — has managed to stay mostly above the political fray.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2026
  • There’s the largest assemblage of Lichtenstein mirror works ever installed together in a museum context, and a complete re-creation of his first Pop art show at Leo Castelli’s gallery uptown.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of assemblage
Verb
  • Mark Zuckerberg is also establishing a family compound Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is worth $261 billion, has also been assembling a family compound in Palo Alto one house at a time.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The new leadership team that Skydance is assembling under the direction of Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, just recruited from Mattel to serve as co-CEO, has to navigate that dynamic.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of assembling
Noun
  • Speaking Tuesday at Sportico’s Invest conference in London, Wrexham AFC non-executive director and former English Football League CEO Shaun Harvey said the soccer community needs to be thinking beyond this one case.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The presidents and chancellors of Clemson, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina sent a letter last week to House leaders seeking to increase the bill's membership cap for conferences from 20 to 22 schools.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of conference
Verb
  • And the pop star has been collecting some major co-signs along the way.
    — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Some laboratory tests might involve only the discomfort of a blood draw or the awkwardness of collecting a urine or stool sample, but others carry the possibility of physical harm.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of collecting
Noun
  • Osborn has been traveling across Nebraska to hold meetings in all 93 counties and has repeatedly criticized Ricketts for not holding town halls to meet with constituents.
    — NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The meeting came as indirect talks between Washington and Tehran have yet to yield meaningful progress.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of meeting
Verb
  • But clustering the high-end systems is an investment only a subset of users will ever need to make.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Keeping the molecules fixed within the plastic prevents them from clustering as easily.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of clustering
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“Ingathering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingathering. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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