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The Securities and Exchange Commission has been gathering information, including through subpoenas it issued, about MassMutual’s bookkeeping around income on billions of dollars of loans it holds in its general investment account, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Since it landed, Perseverance has been gathering and storing material to eventually send back to Earth.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024

The speaker was part of a new, grass-roots movement that has been gathering steam in Russia over the past several weeks.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2023

While Cincinnati has been gathering momentum, Buffalo has been alternating wins and losses.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023

"Somebody has been gathering a nosegay here to-day," said he; "now, mamma, there's only two ways put of this field—let us go straight to that gate; that is the likeliest."

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles