No longer do people have to gather round the agora to do their business.

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Modern high-tech clusters often gather round prestigious universities on whose research they can piggyback.

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Some have themselves photographed holding a tame owl, others gather round a busker crooning Slavic versions of Simon and Garfunkel.

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The spectacle of World Wrestling Entertainment may not be to everyone's tastes but Isner and his friends still gather round to watch it every week.

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Residents gather round as the village P.

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The camp elders (or so the grownups seemed) arranged to set up a rented television in the recreation hall, so we could all gather round the evening of Sunday, July 20 and watch the Apollo 11 spacecraft, commanded by Armstrong, achieve its mission.

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ChargeSource tweaked the commercial by adding a clear call to action, and Lab42 went back to consumers to gather a second round of feedback.

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Once they gather around the clubhouse for a brew and postmortem of the round, they would laugh or hate each other all over again.

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