converge

verb

kən-ˈvərj How to pronounce converge (audio)
Definition of convergenext
as in to meet
to come together into one body or place hungry students converged on the cafeteria almost as soon as the class bell rang

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Recent Examples of converge Teams from across Romania — and the world — converged in the capital to stress-test emergency plans. — Andrei Popoviciu, The Dial, 21 July 2026 Nearly three dozen women from 10 countries — including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia — converged on the field in Bolivia's lowland city of Santa Cruz for five days of training that concluded Friday with friendly matches. — ABC News, 17 July 2026 Still, its findings portray multiple pressures converging at once. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026 Businesses urgently need real-time data to navigate these converging, multi-directional threats. — Frank Ahrens, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for converge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for converge
  1. meet
  2. gather
  3. assemble
  4. rendezvous
  5. convene
  6. congregate
Verb
  • Want to know what to wear to feel closer to yourself, how to update your home to meet a new phase of life, or ways to switch up a beauty routine during an important transit?
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Smith met the victim at Little Platte Swim Beach, the probable cause statement said, where three men allegedly approached the pair.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of meet
Verb
  • The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where demonstrators had gathered near a police station, chanting antimilitant slogans and demanding peace, district police chief Omar Khan said.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The ferry was reported to be nearly engulfed by flames, with passengers gathered on the bridge and bow.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of gather
Verb
  • Engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory assembled the core detector modules and tested the preliminary hardware.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The document described the gun as a Polymer80 firearm, which is sold in parts and assembled by the user.
    — Joe Kottke, NBC news, 31 July 2026
Definition of assemble
Verb
  • Equipped with three robotic arms for grabbing the observatory some 350 kilometers above Earth, LINK is meant to rendezvous with and capture Swift and then use xenon-gas thrusters to raise the observatory’s orbit, giving it a new lease on life.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
  • The orbital refueling demonstration will include two Starship launches, allowing the vehicles to rendezvous and dock with one another in orbit.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026
Definition of rendezvous
Verb
  • After an earlier round of examination scandals in 2024, the government convened a panel of experts that delivered 101 recommendations that October.
    — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • This is a vision that allows Black people to rest, to have agency over their labor and time, to have freedom of movement, to convene together.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
Definition of convene
Verb
  • 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
  • According to experts, wild brown trout are known to congregate around salmon pens to feed on surplus feed that falls through the net cages, otherwise known as cage-grazing.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
Definition of congregate

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