constellating

verb

present participle of constellate
as in assembling
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for constellating
  1. assembling
  2. collecting
  3. gathering
  4. amassing
  5. grouping
  6. accumulating
  7. corralling
Verb
  • As that year’s freshman class president, Miles’ father, George, was instrumental in assembling some 600 freshmen to lug into place 300 tons of loose rock left over from the stadium excavation.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
  • On the provider side, the response is a person opening a portal, reading the denial reason, pulling the record and assembling an appeal by hand.
    — Oleg Nesterov, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • Chase said the acquisition marked an expansion of the library’s collecting interests beyond its millions of rare books, manuscripts and historical items spanning from the 11th through the 21st centuries.
    — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Sunil Pandey Speaking with NBC News in Pokhara, Nabin Karki, a superintendent of police, said authorities were collecting DNA samples and displaying photos of the bodies found in hopes that family members might be able to identify them.
    — Surendra Phuyal, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of collecting
Verb
  • On September 16, C-suite leaders from across Europe and the Middle East will be gathering in London for Fortune CEO Forum to talk about growth and share successes and best practices.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
  • In a California town called Anzar in the late-19th century, Paulette is living with a local magnate’s eccentric son who’s fascinated by the tramps gathering outside his manor.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of gathering
Verb
  • Tabansi, a tackle, and Wayburn, a guard, were multi-year starters at Buffalo and UConn, respectively, amassing more than 2,200 offensive snaps.
    — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2026
  • In June, Baumeyer launched 20-0, an online game that lets players draft a fantasy team from varying eras in gridiron history in hopes of amassing a score worthy of a perfect season.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of amassing
Verb
  • But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This time around, however, the tech giant is establishing parameters on mass arbitration by grouping them in batches of 25, 100, and 500, depending on the total number of claimants with similar issues.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouping
Verb
  • Knowledge work can and should be managed, but progress cannot always be measured through accumulating deliverables.
    — Mustafa Shreet, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Some could be trained to conduct prescribed burns, which thin out accumulating fuel.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of accumulating
Verb
  • Eighty-eight players will receive the Pro Bowl honor with no alternates, corralling a key aspect of the all-star event that had gotten out of whack in recent years.
    — Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • They’ve been seen, for example, corralling schools of rays, creating waves to push penguins from ice blocks and extracting the livers of white sharks.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 23 July 2026
Definition of corralling
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“Constellating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constellating. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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