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Even before the current outbreak, the United States had been amassing millions of mpox vaccines for years.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023

Demonstrators had been amassing for several days to protest the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2020

But, when he wore it, the suit was a reminder that since the late nineteen-seventies he had been amassing a work of sober wit and coherence—and also, it seems, deepening ambivalence about life in America.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2019

Through his investment fund, Strategic Holdings, Bonomi had been amassing shares in the famed all-inclusive resort chain, and the AMF wanted him to declare his intentions.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 17, 2014

Then he gave away all the wealth he had been amassing for years, till he had nothing left.

From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Field, Claud