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cluster around

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cluster someone or something around someone or something
to bunch people or things together around someone or something. She clustered the cups around the punch bowl. Karen clustered the children around the fire.
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cluster around someone or something

[for a group of people or things] to bunch together, surrounding someone or something. The birds clustered around the chimney top to keep warm. The kids clustered around the police officer.
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They cluster around the theme of crisis but, as author Mark Wigley points out in his opening piece, crisis is the point at which things 'spin out of scale.
The reason is simple: fat can cluster around your neck and put pressure on your throat, causing you to snore.
When using that maneuver, the Asian bees cluster around a marauding hornet of another species and cook it to death with their body heat.
 
 
 
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