1
as in gathered
to come together into one body or place
the mice clustered together into a small burrow
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as in huddled
to gather into a closely packed group
all the cottages are clustered on one end of the lake
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Recent Examples of clustered
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.
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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
Many of the important components—including the entire logic board—are clustered up at the top of the phone, while the majority of its middle and body house a battery.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Six guest cabins are clustered along the edge of a pond just below the house, along with a communal cookhouse.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Police Chief Chris Murtha said nine hotels in the city — many of them clustered around the Kipling and I-70 interchange — for years accounted for 10% of all police calls in the city of 32,000.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
But the country’s extreme wealth remains clustered in a handful of hot spots.
—Ella Malmgren, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
There was no external funding, so the creation of this film was essentially a group of friends clustered around the script, having intense artistic conversations, and nothing else existed outside that circle.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
And Pew Research finds Americans increasingly clustered into partisan camps, with fewer holding a mix of political views.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
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
Many of the important components—including the entire logic board—are clustered up at the top of the phone, while the majority of its middle and body house a battery.
—Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Six guest cabins are clustered along the edge of a pond just below the house, along with a communal cookhouse.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Police Chief Chris Murtha said nine hotels in the city — many of them clustered around the Kipling and I-70 interchange — for years accounted for 10% of all police calls in the city of 32,000.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
But the country’s extreme wealth remains clustered in a handful of hot spots.
—Ella Malmgren, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
There was no external funding, so the creation of this film was essentially a group of friends clustered around the script, having intense artistic conversations, and nothing else existed outside that circle.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
And Pew Research finds Americans increasingly clustered into partisan camps, with fewer holding a mix of political views.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clustered
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Days after a gunman drove a truck into a Grand Blanc Township church and opened fire on worshippers, killing four people and wounding eight, hundreds gathered in Flint for a community safety briefing focused on crisis response and prevention in houses of worship.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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On Tuesday night, hundreds of people gathered to remember the teenagers, according to CNN affiliate WABC.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Others are sleeping, huddled in doorways to keep warm and safe.—
Ashley Hiruko,
ProPublica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Meatball huddled with his bent cops, to figure out how to shut Kearney up once and for all.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
24 Sep. 2025
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Immediately defenders Jared Spurgeon and Zeev Buium converged, prepared to clear the zone.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 2025
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Still, this past August, 80,000 people converged in the Nevada desert to set up what aspires to be a peaceful global village.—
Dennis Hinkamp,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
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Many know it for Brooks Falls, made famous by Fat Bear Week, where in 2024 more than two-thirds of the park’s 55,000 visitors crowded the platforms to watch the bears feast on salmon.—
Susan Portnoy,
AFAR Media,
3 Oct. 2025
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Hundreds of people have crowded the streets near the disaster site, and families of the missing gathered at a nearby meeting point to wait for news and check a list of names pinned to a notice board.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Reaching the Frontier Over the past year, ByteDance has assembled top AI talent, hiring a former vice president of Google DeepMind to lead AI foundational research and luring other engineers and researchers away from Alibaba and other start-ups, the Financial Times reported in December.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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They were delivered fully assembled and dynamically balanced from the company’s production base on the Yangtze River.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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The cumulative net losses to public biotech companies’ bottom lines piled up to more than $40 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2004.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Brigitte Macron, Stella McCartney, David Beckham, Diego Della Valle, Remo Ruffini, a squad of top LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton executives and the extended Arnault family piled into Le Pavillon Ledoyen for the ceremony on Wednesday night during Paris Fashion Week.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
2 Oct. 2025
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Green Hill first met in a school house and then a building along Tate Lane that later became the Masonic Lodge.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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The couple met on a blind date arranged by friends in May 2022.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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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
Cite this Entry
“Clustered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clustered. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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