1
as in assembly
a body of people come together in one place
a muster of concerned citizens
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2
as in cluster
a number of things considered as a unit
considering the muster of suggestions that were submitted for "word of the year"
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1
as in to summon
to assemble and make ready for action
a command to muster the troops
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2
as in to call
to bring together in assembly by or as if by command
all the supporters that I could muster for the fund-raising campaign
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3
as in to contain
to be made up of
the corps of regular wine drinkers musters only about 10% of the population
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Recent Examples of muster
Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 June 2025
Senate Republicans are racing to write language on Medicaid that can help both comply with the parliamentary rules and get 50 votes, after the parliamentarian ruled their first approach didn’t pass muster.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 27 June 2025
Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Last season, Al Hilal’s attack mustered 95 goals even as the team finished second, eight points behind Al Ittihad, but Asian Champions League glory has eluded them since 2021, casting a harsher light on their lack of elite individual quality.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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Noun
The three of us look at the photo that passes muster.
—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 27 June 2025
Senate Republicans are racing to write language on Medicaid that can help both comply with the parliamentary rules and get 50 votes, after the parliamentarian ruled their first approach didn’t pass muster.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 27 June 2025
Verb
Oklahoma City mustered less than half of that [17].
—Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Last season, Al Hilal’s attack mustered 95 goals even as the team finished second, eight points behind Al Ittihad, but Asian Champions League glory has eluded them since 2021, casting a harsher light on their lack of elite individual quality.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muster
Noun
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That assembly of influences, stretching across half a century, appears with greater and lesser prevalence in each of the band’s numbers.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
4 July 2025
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The lower receiver, which Jones is accused of receiving from Prolific Arms, includes the trigger assembly, safety controls, magazine well, grip and other parts, has a serial number.—
John Diedrich,
jsonline.com,
3 July 2025
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The team’s genetic analysis focused on the Hox cluster: a family of genes found widely across the animal kingdom that fundamentally control an organism’s physical development.—
Christian Thorsberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 July 2025
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Just as with Windows antivirus tools, there are two main pricing clusters for a single-year Mac antivirus subscription, one around $40 and one around $50.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
10 July 2025
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Initially, DeSales University professor Marie Bolger had also been summoned to court, but her name was removed from a later filing.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2025
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Gi-hun summons his courage and spirit in his final moments, defending his values even as his mission decisively fails.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
28 June 2025
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When a reporter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation on Tuesday, President Donald Trump could not contain himself a moment longer.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
13 July 2025
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But complexity theorists suspect that PSPACE is a much larger class, containing many problems that aren’t in P.—
Ben Brubaker,
Wired News,
13 July 2025
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Many of those residents were artists and musicians, including the famed assemblage artist and former director of the Watts Towers Arts Center, John Outterbridge, whose home and studio burned in the fire.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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The most comprehensive solo museum exhibition to date for the artist, approximately 50 works from 1959 to 1999–paintings, sculptures, etchings, drawings, assemblages, and musical compositions–are brought together.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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In another batch of letters shared later in the afternoon, Trump said tariffs would be set at 25% for Tunisia, 30% for Bosnia and Herzegovina, 32% for Indonesia, 35% for Bangladesh and Serbia, and 36% for Cambodia and Thailand.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
7 July 2025
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For your next sheet pan dinner, batch of cookies, or party appetizers, grab this set of non-stick baking pans while it’s marked down.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
7 July 2025
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More than 22,000 reservists are due to be mobilized and the exercise is scheduled to run concurrently with island-wide civil defense drills.—
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 July 2025
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Incoming Republican President Donald Trump is expected to mobilize agencies across the government to deport a record number of immigrants − possibly starting as soon as he's sworn in Monday.—
Sharon Coolidge,
The Enquirer,
3 July 2025
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The interior comprises three floors, the first two are dedicated to an exhibition that showcases the brand's culture and history, with a cafe sitting at the top.—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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At the time, Ithaca comprised a variety of different endeavors and entities, including Braun’s management company SB Projects (which represented Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, J Balvin, and more), a publishing company, and the country label Big Machine Label Group.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
1 July 2025
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“Muster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muster. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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