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as in converged
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
Further into the lobby, guests clustered around wooden and carpeted phone booths outfitted with black rotary-style phones, taking turns posing as if mid-call.
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Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
People stood clustered on the sidewalk in scarves and coats, even stopping their cars or leaving nearby restaurants and hotels, to take videos and pictures as the protesters marched down Commerce Street.
—Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
Today, six of fifty-five stops have level boarding, clustered around Canal Street and the French Quarter, with a Streetcar Modernization Master Plan aiming for full accessibility by late 2027.
—Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
Early excitement clustered around tools that promised to augment creativity or automate marketing and capability arrived faster than clarity.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
And the rare earth elements clustered in southern Greenland, an ice-free area with access to roads, harbors and other crucial infrastructure, are of greater interest to mining companies.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
Baseball returns downtown, signaling the start of the season, and warmer days make Denver’s walkable neighborhoods—most notably RiNo, LoHi, Cherry Creek, and Capitol Hill—easy to explore on foot, with restaurants, shops, and galleries clustered close together.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
The researchers traced the careers of individual scientists, examined how their papers accumulated attention, and zoomed out to consider how entire fields clustered or dispersed intellectually over time.
—Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2026
Another factor could be too many buds clustered on a shoot where removal of all but one of them will ensure that the remaining bud will open.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
People stood clustered on the sidewalk in scarves and coats, even stopping their cars or leaving nearby restaurants and hotels, to take videos and pictures as the protesters marched down Commerce Street.
—Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
Today, six of fifty-five stops have level boarding, clustered around Canal Street and the French Quarter, with a Streetcar Modernization Master Plan aiming for full accessibility by late 2027.
—Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
Early excitement clustered around tools that promised to augment creativity or automate marketing and capability arrived faster than clarity.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
And the rare earth elements clustered in southern Greenland, an ice-free area with access to roads, harbors and other crucial infrastructure, are of greater interest to mining companies.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
Baseball returns downtown, signaling the start of the season, and warmer days make Denver’s walkable neighborhoods—most notably RiNo, LoHi, Cherry Creek, and Capitol Hill—easy to explore on foot, with restaurants, shops, and galleries clustered close together.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
The researchers traced the careers of individual scientists, examined how their papers accumulated attention, and zoomed out to consider how entire fields clustered or dispersed intellectually over time.
—Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2026
Another factor could be too many buds clustered on a shoot where removal of all but one of them will ensure that the remaining bud will open.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clustered
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The film captures the dramatic events as citizens, lawmakers, soldiers and police officers converged on the Assembly, with memories of the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising resurfacing amid the chaos.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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Only a small number of people showed up for Lang’s demonstration, while hundreds of counterprotesters converged at the site, yelling over his attempts to speak and chasing the pro-ICE group away.—
Jack Brook,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2026
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The building where De Quincey and the nameless little girl huddled together under a scrap of rug and an old sofa cover has since been demolished, replaced by a Barclays bank.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Puppet lovers are all huddled at the Allerton Hotel on the Magnificent Mile and traipsing off to watch shows all over the city, at venues from the Studebaker Theater to the Chopin to the Biograph.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Just outside Minneapolis, hundreds gathered in the frigid cold early Friday at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, the site of regular protests in recent weeks.—
KIMBERLEE KRUESI,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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Dosunmu gathered the ball and passed it this time to Coby White, who launched his own counter.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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Meta appears to be struggling to catch up in a field crowded with rivals who have demonstrated much greater success in developing AI models – notably Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.—
Peter Cohan,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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More than twenty‑five thousand people crowded into Shibe Park, including throngs of young people who made the gathering feel more like a festival than a political convention.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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Not wanting to disappoint, but short on ingredients, Cardini quickly assembled some romaine lettuce, anchovies, breadcrumbs, and some other ingredients.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Most of the parts for such houses are assembled in a factory, like a car, then hauled to the property and put together.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
27 Jan. 2026
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As the storm went on and snow piled up, ice began to form on some parts of the road.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
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In some residential neighborhoods, sidewalks are still covered by snowbanks piled multiple feet high.—
Samantha Chaney,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Thousands of protesters met in front of City Hall in the afternoon, before many marched to the federal detention center, where a mob of violent agitators swarmed the area, pushing a large construction dumpster and blocking the entrance to the building's loading dock.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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No wonder then, when substitute Mia Enderby met Jenna Clark’s cross perfectly in the 92nd minute, putting Liverpool 1-0 up, the cries of celebration spilled out before the ball had officially crossed the goal line.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The Japanese space agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), launched its Hayabusa2 mission in December 2014 and rendezvoused with the near-Earth C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 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
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“Clustered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clustered. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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