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  • noun Plural form of gather.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gather.

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Examples

  • "Go Bang" are all given the treatment, and you can expect many others to also get an airing when the label gathers Maurice Fulton, Bill Brewster, Yam Who?,

    RA News 2009

  • Thinking of it as abjection of what is or was a part of one’s self is part of the reason I suspect the term gathers a lot of its meaning from its use in “literary sf” or “literary fantasy”.

    War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No… 2009

  • During colonial development bacteria collectively use inherited knowledge together with causal information it gathers from the environment, including other organisms.

    A Materialist Red Herring 2009

  • All of the information Winthrop gathers is publicly available but time-consuming and expensive to gather.

    One firm finds niche by selling its salary database to colleges 2010

  • To be “at home” in the World of Interiors, one rapidly gathers, is to bask in the privacy of your own space, serene and unabashed, while the rest of the world goes kaboom all around you.

    Home Alone 2006

  • To be “at home” in the World of Interiors, one rapidly gathers, is to bask in the privacy of your own space, serene and unabashed, while the rest of the world goes kaboom all around you.

    Home Alone 2006

  • The call gathers its participants from Chicago, Boston, Silicon Valley, and New York.

    Is This the End of News? Wolff, Michael 2007

  • The meetings were not entirely musical, or so one gathers from the early minute-books, where it is stated that at each meeting one bottle of sherry was to be provided for every three members, and one bottle of madeira for every seven members, and further that politics or religion were not to be talked during meetings.

    Music and Musicians 1949

  • [Verse 13] The word gathers up all the wealthy results of the previous reasonings.

    The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

  • After a while the word gathers associations, and has an independent existence.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

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