bring together

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bring (someone or something) together

1. To unite people for a certain occasion. Thank you for bringing us together, sis—we really need to try to spend more time together as a family.
2. To unite people on a certain issue. What will it take to bring the two sides together to finally agree on a contract?
3. To put in close proximity all the components necessary to complete a task. We should bring all the pieces from the box together before we start trying to assemble the desk.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bring someone together

 
1. Lit. to cause people to gather into a group. He brought everyone together in the drawing room. They were brought together in a large conference room.
2. Fig. to attempt to get people to agree with one another. I tried to bring them together, but they are too stubborn. They could not be brought together on a price.
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bring something together

to assemble things; to gather things together. Thank you for bringing everything together so we can begin work. We brought together all the tools that we needed.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bring (someone or something) together
  • we should get together (sometime)
  • hang together
  • be/live in each other's pockets
  • live in each other's pockets
  • Let's get together
  • let's get together (sometime)
  • huddle together
  • weld together
  • draw together
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In this weighty volume Scobie sets out both to bring together Old and New Testaments for a biblical theology based on a Christian canon of scripture and to bridge what he sees as a gap between the living Word of the church and the Bible of the academy.
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By tethering molecules to fragments of DNA, he coerces the genetic bits to bring together molecules that would never react if they merely were dissolved in the same solution.
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