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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  • Top executives convened for a panel hosted by The Female Quotient and F1 Academy during the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.
    — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Despite that lack of evidence, the loosening of restrictions has come after the FDA began analyzing how to make the substances more accessible and convened a panel to discuss allowing compounding pharmacies to manufacture them.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of convened
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  • The Ayers couple met Schubert at a 2023 cold case conference in Marble Falls, Texas, where the idea for the nonprofit took shape.
    — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Brax Technologies The Wink can also wipe your data when a specific condition is met.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of met
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  • The two actors only professionally collaborated on 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which Douglas produced and Nicholson starred in.
    — McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Researchers from Illinois and Notre Dame collaborated on the project through their respective engineering departments.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of collaborated
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  • This week, ahead of Abu Dhabi’s flagship energy conference ADIPEC, senior executives and CEOs from the energy industry gathered to discuss the challenges facing the industry under the Chatham House Rule.
    — Amena Bakr, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • At the news conference, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said investigators at his office gathered video evidence, interviewed witnesses and worked closely with prosecutors to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of gathered
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  • The popular versions include the striker’s face merged into photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, late Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and late Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Morgan merged three major continental railroads into a behemoth known as the Northern Securities Company.
    — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of merged
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  • The agent cooperated with police during the initial investigation, the local agency said.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators, authorities said.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of cooperated
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  • Pressure for Britain — along with the United States, Portugal, Spain and others who profited from slavery — to pay reparations has increased in recent years as Caribbean and African nations united behind the issue.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Huerta in Stockton and Chávez in San José — and later united over their common concern for farmworkers.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
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