constellates

verb

present tense third-person singular of constellate
as in collects
to bring together in one body or place the museum has constellated many of the artist's most glorious paintings into one stunning exhibition

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  1. collects
  2. assembles
  3. gathers
  4. groups
  5. accumulates
  6. rounds up
  7. amasses
  8. corrals
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  • This collects about 8,000 original documents and other elements linked to the house’s perfume and beauty archives, totaling about 5 percent of its full collection.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • After a dietary supplement goes to market, the FDA periodically inspects its manufacturing facilities and collects and tests some products.
    — Andrew Yockey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of collects
Verb
  • Simpler battery packs lower costs The company buys battery cells and assembles its own packs rather than manufacturing the cells themselves.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
  • His team then assembles mood boards using references from films, music videos and other media before developing sketches and finalizing designs.
    — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of assembles
Verb
  • An agent that gathers records or checks for required information may operate with limited intervention.
    — Heather Bassett, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • When a storm, usually fed by unusually warm water, suddenly gathers a lot of strength, sustaining winds that increase in speed by at least 35 mph (56 kph) in 24 hours, it is called rapid intensification.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of gathers
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  • Because humans can readily resolve patterns in motion — when points move in the same direction, the brain groups them into a unified whole — the moving dots appear as faint letters.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of groups
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  • The descent into crisis-club territory usually happens by degrees, a malaise that accumulates slowly as one poor performance follows another.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • This creates a point in the circular segment where tension accumulates, which in turn leads to the formation of a pointed edge.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of accumulates
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  • From creamy caramel gradients to swirled marble designs, InStyle rounds up 11 manicures inspired by the cozy fall drink.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 16 Oct. 2026
  • For the latest installment of Vogue’s Required Reading series, Hoover rounds up some of the books that most inspired her own work—Verity in particular—from romances to thrillers and beyond.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of rounds up
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  • 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
Definition of amasses
Verb
  • But the more underrated value lies in the harness that corrals that intelligence to achieve specific business outcomes.
    — Don Schuerman, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Goodman’s prose is clear rather than complex, and carefully calibrated to each of her characters; the book’s form corrals the natural speed of her sentences into act-length shapes that one moves around in one’s head like puzzle pieces.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
Definition of corrals
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“Constellates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constellates. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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