caucused

verb

past tense of caucus
as in convened
to meet as a group to decide on something Republicans caucused last week to choose their candidates.

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Recent Examples of caucused Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona left the Democratic Party in 2022, and Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia did the same in 2024, briefly joining Sanders and King as independents who still caucused with the Democrats. — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caucused
  1. convened
  2. met
  3. collaborated
  4. gathered
  5. merged
  6. cooperated
  7. united
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  • So on Thursday, a small group of a little more than two dozen environmental justice advocates convened in Oakland to march to Wicks’ district office and present her staff with a letter asking the lawmaker to back Senate Bill 954.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
  • Thursday's hearing had a few awkward moments that were perhaps fitting for a federal court that has never before convened in history.
    — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Definition of convened
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  • Both men sat in opposite corners afterward before Reigns walked to the center and offered a fist, and Rollins met it.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Last August, the International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution declaring that Israel’s actions met the legal definition of genocide.
    — Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of met
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  • Olivia Rodrigo has collaborated with LEGO on five new building sets, becoming the first musician to receive dedicated LEGO collections.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Having collaborated with his parents since the late 1980s, Berenstain was no stranger to furthering the family legacy.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of collaborated
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  • The intervention on Thursday and Friday came as the Bank of Japan board gathered to set monetary policy.
    — Mia Glass, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • As the official automotive sponsor of Stateside, Scout anchored its own corner of Stateside — starting with the Scout Stage — where a steady stream of emerging artists kept festival-goers gathered throughout the day.
    — Lori Majewski, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2026
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  • The company was formed through a transaction in which digital compute platform Hut 8 offered its cryptocurrency mining fleet to a new entity that merged with Gryphon last September, inheriting Gryphon's legal liabilities and the PPP dispute.
    — Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT Work, a task-completion agent, and merged the standalone Codex app into the ChatGPT desktop app.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of merged
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  • Edwards cooperated with the committee's investigation, which included 16 witness interviews, including the congressman himself, and over 1,500 pages of evidence.
    — Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The driver of the Ford is not being identified at this time, and has cooperated with the investigation, police said.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of cooperated
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  • Toto, Christopher Cross and The Romantics — three top pop/rock acts who did big business on the charts back in the 1980s — have united for a major concert tour.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
  • Poor Americans across ethnic lines—including Black workers from the Deep South, women, and immigrants—were united by a claim to dignity and health.
    — Elijah TanAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
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