clustered

verb

past tense of cluster
1
as in converged
to come together into one body or place the mice clustered together into a small burrow

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2
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 At the same candidate forum, Lake said that employment opportunities tend to be clustered in larger cities across Jackson County, putting candidates further east at a disadvantage when looking for jobs. — Ilana Arougheti july 30, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026 The cottages and town houses would be clustered on the development’s east side, near Meridian Road, with larger homes on the west. — Rose Evans july 29, Idaho Statesman, 29 July 2026 And guards, clustered in small groups, were scattered about the room. — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026 The Rooms Hotel Wailea’s 72 one-bedroom suites are clustered in groups of four, with 18 buildings spread throughout the property. — Ronee Uyeshiro, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2026 Perhaps the most notable change from last offseason is that the high-major leagues are no longer as tightly clustered in spending. — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 26 July 2026 Spring also brings out the beautiful golden club with its bright yellow flowers clustered at the tip of a spike. — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 25 July 2026 So the researchers focused on regions of the Cas9 protein where these amino acids clustered, viewing this as a sign that these areas were adapting to the differences caused by mismatched bases. — ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026 Conceptual plans showed a series of four-story apartment buildings clustered at one end of the property. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clustered
  1. converged
  2. huddled
  3. gathered
  4. crowded
  5. assembled
  6. piled
  7. met
  8. rendezvoused
Verb
  • Two competitors, working independently and with different architectures, have converged on shipping a new frontier model about every two months.
    — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • And somehow — because this is how life on the cocktail party circuit works sometimes — their paths converged, maybe 30 yards from Babe Ruth’s plaque and just around the corner from the goosebumpy Ted Williams sculpture.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Definition of converged
Verb
  • The seats were filled with families and friends all huddled underneath the shade of umbrellas to enjoy an afternoon ice cream.
    — Hali Smith August 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Camp David is also where Carter huddled in 1979 with representatives of a cross-section of American society.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
Definition of huddled
Verb
  • The intervention on Thursday and Friday came as the Bank of Japan board gathered to set monetary policy.
    — Mia Glass, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • As the official automotive sponsor of Stateside, Scout anchored its own corner of Stateside — starting with the Scout Stage — where a steady stream of emerging artists kept festival-goers gathered throughout the day.
    — Lori Majewski, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathered
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  • Train stations in Morocco’s capital, Rabat, and in the country’s largest city, Casablanca, were crowded with people trying to travel to the border with Ceuta.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Listeners crowded her Thursday Airbnb set all the way from the stage into the street.
    — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of crowded
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  • Engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory assembled the core detector modules and tested the preliminary hardware.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Outside the Moda Center, dozens of Cunningham supporters gathered for the second consecutive Fever road game, while counterprotesters assembled nearby, some wearing costumes.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • This is so many different kinds of humor piled together, from callback to callout to laugh-at-him-not-with-him arrogant mistake to conscious, hyperbolic comic echoing to edgy provocation.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 July 2026
  • Despite these flat denials, and no mention of the ‘curse’ before 1990, the mythology only grew as Mayo’s barren years piled up.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Definition of piled
Verb
  • Both men sat in opposite corners afterward before Reigns walked to the center and offered a fist, and Rollins met it.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Last August, the International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution declaring that Israel’s actions met the legal definition of genocide.
    — Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of met
Verb
  • Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu four years later.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 28 June 2026
  • 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
Definition of rendezvoused

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