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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
The family resort chain has more than 20 properties across North America; most are clustered on the East Coast and in the Midwest, though there are a handful out west too.
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Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
How To Identify Aphids These insects are found in colonies, clustered on the undersides of leaves and stems.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
Guests clustered around tables in the ship’s new Parlor venue, carefully reading instructions to unfamiliar games while sipping cocktails.
—Josh Rivera, USA Today, 17 May 2026
The cast, clustered around him, jumped up and down.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Distribution, data, and audiences clustered around whoever had the most users, and everything else followed with them.
—David Liberman, Fortune, 16 May 2026
The others clustered around, circling the stroller and throwing shade.
—Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Climatologically, early season storm formation points are typically clustered in the Gulf.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Under the new plan, that district would instead be clustered around predominantly white communities in the Baton Rouge area and southern Louisiana.
—ABC News, 14 May 2026
Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
How To Identify Aphids These insects are found in colonies, clustered on the undersides of leaves and stems.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 May 2026
Guests clustered around tables in the ship’s new Parlor venue, carefully reading instructions to unfamiliar games while sipping cocktails.
—Josh Rivera, USA Today, 17 May 2026
The cast, clustered around him, jumped up and down.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Distribution, data, and audiences clustered around whoever had the most users, and everything else followed with them.
—David Liberman, Fortune, 16 May 2026
The others clustered around, circling the stroller and throwing shade.
—Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
Climatologically, early season storm formation points are typically clustered in the Gulf.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Under the new plan, that district would instead be clustered around predominantly white communities in the Baton Rouge area and southern Louisiana.
—ABC News, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clustered
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Anthropic found that their system, freed from task constraints, converged on the densest patterns in human writing about meaning.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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More frequent access Asparouhov said that several trend lines have converged, enabling Varda and United Therapeutics to collaborate.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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About eight teens could be seen throwing punches and hurling restaurant furniture at one another as innocent bystanders huddled for safety in a corner of the establishment.—
Louis Casiano , Brooke Taylor,
FOXNews.com,
20 May 2026
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The Royals challenged the call and the umpires huddled.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
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About 1,000 children with intellectual disabilities from 26 states and Canada who ranged in age from 8 to 18 gathered at Soldier Field in Chicago to compete in 200 events.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2026
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Tax revenue gathered from cardrooms contributes to public safety funding, fire protection, youth programs, essential city services and non-profits, Kirkland added.—
Reeti Malhotra
Updated May 21,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2026
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But the market for easy design tools is crowded with competitors such as Figma, Adobe and Microsoft launching compelling offerings.—
Ellen Sheng,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Earth’s orbit is getting crowded, and not just physically.—
Margherita Bassi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 May 2026
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Fox even had its chief technology officer address the assembled at its upfront presentation.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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This reduction in mechanical complexity allows the system to be manufactured and assembled using standard US factory infrastructure and existing supply chains, which is intended to decrease both costs and deployment timelines.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
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The team piled sandbags around the perimeter for protection.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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Staff deliver hot cinnamon buns with honeydew from the local Spoon and Key Market, sandwiches piled high with barbecue chicken, and after the final snorkel session, adult beverages on the way back to shore.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
14 May 2026
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Somewhere between Pomp and Circumstance and the president’s closing remarks, more than one commencement speaker this year mentioned artificial intelligence — and met a barrage of boos.—
Ann Kirschner,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Each with a bespoke gentleness to their rhythms, these newest works by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Koji Fukada, and grand master Hirokazu Koreeda have been met with differing degrees of enthusiasm, per the many critics’ grids floating around.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
22 May 2026
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However, unlike the X-37B, Shenlong has rendezvoused with other objects in space.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
23 Feb. 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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“Clustered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clustered. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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