FORGATHERED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

forgathered

verb

variants or foregathered

past tense of forgather

as in gathered

to come together into one body or place asked the townsfolk to forgather at the war monument for the Memorial Day ceremony

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Researchers gathered data on students’ mental well-being before and after the intervention in March.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
In Paris, hundreds of protesters gathered again on Sunday at the Place de la République amid a heavy police presence.

— SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of gathered

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In Oxford, Archer met Mary Weeden, a chemistry student who became his wife in 1966.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 17 Oct. 2026
Fewer than half of students met or exceeded state standards in English language arts and math, and many Sacramento-area schools were no exception.

— Chaewon Chung October 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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Musk has converged with Sony’s wide release this weekend of Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, a sequel to The Social Network focused on the dangerous, sordid side of Facebook under founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026
Riot police gathered in side streets as students converged on the school.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of converged

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Seth Wickersham, a top sports journalist with ESPN in Bristol for over 25 years, has assembled his best work into a nearly 500-page paperback collection.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
The industrialist Vincent Bolloré has assembled a vast media empire that includes CNews, a Fox News-style channel that has become an important platform for the nationalist right.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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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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Nadella recalled a meeting around 2008–09, convened by then-chairman Bill Gates, to review a potential acquisition involving a team working on parallel data warehousing.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
But by 1965, when Johnson convened a committee to study the issue, half of those buildings had been either destroyed or damaged beyond repair.

— Rachel Treisman, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026

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