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embanking

verb

present participle of embank

as in accumulating

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Crayfish have joined the list of non-native species massing below Glen Canyon Dam for a potential invasion of Grand Canyon, raising alarms from conservationists who want to protect pristine tributary streams in the national park.

— Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2026
In October 1973, Israeli military intelligence had detailed reports of Egyptian and Syrian forces massing on the borders.

— Bryce Hoffman, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026

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This prevents electricity from piling up in one vulnerable spot when the transistor switches off, allowing the electric field to spread more evenly.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
But the host Thunderwolves started piling up points in the second half and that was that.

— The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026

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