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• n  a grouping of a number of similar things
  a cluster of admirers
• v  come together as in a cluster or flock
• v  gather or cause to gather into a cluster

• bunch
• clump
• clustering
• constellate
• flock
• bunch up
• bundle

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in International Herald Tribune
  Although most venues must be newly built, Putin assured: "We guarantee the Olympic cluster in Sochi will be completed on time."
• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  These naysayers have short memories,Obama said. "That we, as a people, did not get here by standing pat in a time of change. We did not get here by doing what was easy. That is not how a cluster of 13 colonies became the United States of...
• Jens Stoltenberg in International Herald Tribune
  Banning cluster bombs took too long. Too many people lost arms and legs,Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said as he opened the conference.