congregated

verb

past tense of congregate
1
as in gathered
to bring together in one body or place both captains congregated their team members for some pregame strategizing

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2
as in converged
to come together into one body or place pilgrims have been congregating in the town's historic square for centuries

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Recent Examples of congregated In the 1930s, Shanghai was an international city where foreign nationals congregated for trade and other reasons. — David Szondy august 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026 But with hundreds at a time congregated on his stream, Lucarelli refused to fold. — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 The umpires congregated for 15 seconds, and then went back to playing ball. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026 The chief said the Romare Bearden Park incident came just days after 200 to 300 teenagers congregated in the University City neighborhood of Charlotte, creating disorder and leaving several officers assaulted while trying to break up fights. — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026 Music blasted over the sounds of conversation, as some people gathered at the bar for drinks and others congregated around a table littered with poster making supplies. — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Some 1,037 Marilyn lookalikes of every gender in white halter dresses and platinum blonde wigs congregated in downtown Palm Springs. — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Tucked in the opposite corner of the recreation center is a recording studio, where a small handful of teens have congregated. — Diamy Wang july 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026 Men and women congregated separately inside the Grand Mosalla after body searches and metal detector checks. — Nasser Karimi, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregated
  1. gathered
  2. converged
  3. assembled
  4. met
  5. collected
  6. convened
  7. grouped
  8. rendezvoused
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  • Community members gathered for the town hall Monday night to hear from former employees, community leaders and the president and CEO of Insight, who spoke about his hopes for the now-shuttered West Suburban and Weiss Memorial hospitals.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • During the surge, the most important of these turned out to be those founded during the upheaval that followed George Floyd’s murder, when residents gathered in nearby parks to organize block associations led by captains.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathered
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  • Debit and credit card spending also converged across income groups last month, according to the think tank.
    — Sharon Epperson,Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
  • People converged around the tow truck, but rapid responders from PUNO and the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois stood between protesters and the truck and pleaded with people to let the tow truck through.
    — Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of converged
Verb
  • Engineers have assembled a prototype air-cooling rig to test the passive safety systems.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • High prices, closed factories Anderson said from January to July this year, there were about 689,000 vehicles assembled in Canada.
    — Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
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  • The two officials met on the sidelines of a Group of 20 finance leaders' gathering in Asheville, North Carolina.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Driscoll is an Iraq war veteran, tech investor and former adviser to Vance, whom Driscoll met at Yale Law School.
    — Ben Finley, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of met
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  • Following Technoblade’s death, more than 400,000 messages from fans were collected in a virtual Minecraft memorial and transformed into 22 books of condolences for his family.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Reporters collected waitlist and enrollment data from 47 states and the District of Columbia.
    — Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of collected
Verb
  • At the same time, as tech companies issue urgent new warnings about the dangers of AI, the Department of Health and Human Services convened childhood experts Tuesday to discuss the harms of excessive adolescent screen use.
    — Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • But as Jensen made it into the dugout, the umpires convened and reversed the decision.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of convened
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  • Accommodations and gathering spaces are closely grouped to keep people together, including the long, family-style tables for meals and board games, daily activities, and nightly happy hours hosted by the property.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Wedbush's Reese noted that Imax is grouped in with the theatrical exhibition space, which is traditionally a slow-growth, dividend-paying business.
    — Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouped
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  • According to Treasury, fishing vessels secretly rendezvoused at sea with smaller go-fast boats carrying cocaine north through the eastern Pacific.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu four years later.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 28 June 2026
Definition of rendezvoused

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