clustered

past tense of cluster

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clustered The players clustered near him in the clubhouse after Game 5, goggles strapped around commemorative ALCS caps. Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 As of Friday afternoon, the worst of the thunderstorms were clustered near Las Vegas. Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025 It had been refashioned into a boutique retreat; a collection of smaller cabins clustered around a long building in the middle. Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025 Producers and directors naturally clustered in the middle, while those pushed to the ends were both physically and symbolically removed from the action. Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2025 According to a Pew Research Center survey from earlier this year, regular users of CBS News placed themselves just left of center, clustered with other outlets like ABC News and Univision. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025 Matter clumped and clustered together under the relentless pull of gravity, and structures grew and grew on progressively larger scales. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025 In the new regime, half of those junior bankers would be working from cities with cheaper labor, say Bengaluru, India, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, instead of being clustered in expensive New York. Hugh Son, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025 The map showed large amounts of lightning clustered in Contra Costa and Alameda counties. Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clustered
Verb
  • When his birthday arrived, the entire family gathered for dinner, including relatives from both his mom’s and dad’s sides.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • From the evidence gathered on-and-off-scene, investigators determine a probable cause and draft a report.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the streets of Khan Younis, dozens of men huddled around a single television, whistling and cheering.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • As much as the action, which is tightly cut and usually alternates confidently between characters frantically on-the-move and other characters huddled in claustrophobic spaces, the storylines are held together by the performances.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The mass of players converged in a pile after the snap, and as Arnold leaned across the goal line, Georgia linebacker CJ Allen punched out the football.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Immediately defenders Jared Spurgeon and Zeev Buium converged, prepared to clear the zone.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The courtroom’s gallery was crowded, with some observers weeping quietly during the brief proceeding.
    Meena Duerson, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Last November, in Lima's cemetery of El Sauce, throngs of people crowded around graves bringing food and drink to the deceased during Dia de Todos los Santos, or All Saints' Day.
    NPR, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The world’s fourth-largest carmaker said Tuesday the investment will support the introduction of five new vehicles, including a Dodge Durango to be built in Detroit and a midsize truck to be assembled in Toledo, Ohio.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Structurally Reddit’s league deals resemble those assembled by other social platforms, with leagues making a commitment to post and sharing ad-revenue attached to content.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • According to archaeologists, these ancient farmers piled up stones and soil to form a body, pincers, and a curved tail with a stinger.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • It is piled like a crunchy cloud atop fresh Cretan mizithra cheese and a mix of sheep and goat graviera, a hard yellow cheese from the Peloponnese, and drizzled with local honey syrup.
    Katherine Whittaker, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • During her first week on the job, Weiss embarked on a listening tour of the network and met with top staff and producers, many of whom left the meetings with cautious optimism about the network’s future.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Those teams, who have met in the past two conference championship games, play next Saturday at Albertsons Stadium.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Enola Gay flew to Iwo Jima, 3-1/2 hours away, circled once and rendezvoused with the photo and gauge B-29s.
    David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Clustered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clustered. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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