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as in to gather
to bring together in one body or place
both captains congregated their team members for some pregame strategizing
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as in to converge
to come together into one body or place
pilgrims have been congregating in the town's historic square for centuries
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Recent Examples of congregate
Like their fellow fall pest, the brown marmorated stink bug, boxelder bugs like to congregate in large numbers.
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Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2025
The main area where bears congregate at Waterfall Creek is not quite the size of a football field.
—Robert Annis, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Then both units congregated back onto the main field for scrimmage periods.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
Kolodin predicted some of them will rise to the moment and ensure Kirk’s death doesn’t leave a void in the online spaces where young people congregate.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
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Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2025
The main area where bears congregate at Waterfall Creek is not quite the size of a football field.
—Robert Annis, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Then both units congregated back onto the main field for scrimmage periods.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
Kolodin predicted some of them will rise to the moment and ensure Kirk’s death doesn’t leave a void in the online spaces where young people congregate.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregate
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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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Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Oct. 2025
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Thousands converge every week on the streets of Tel Aviv to express their anger at the government and call for an end to the war.—
Zeena Saifi,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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But their stars blazed different paths for them both, converging again only by a twist of fate.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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Lawmakers have promised that schools and local governments, which receive a large share of the sales tax revenue the state collects, will be held harmless by the shift.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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It's collected nine Assembly co-sponsors and four from the Senate but hasn't been brought to a committee, Brill said.—
Gina Lee Castro,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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But despite all that history, the church voted in June to stop meeting due to low numbers and the inability to keep up with building maintenance costs.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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The mayor's office said the quick timeline is necessary to meet state notification deadlines for the change to take effect.—
Vanessa Swales,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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All the while, the enchanted garden where Travis would get down on one knee was being assembled outside of his and Swift’s house.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
7 Oct. 2025
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The trailer shows Hemsworth’s Geralt assembling an army of adventurers to track down his former Witcher apprentice Ciri (Freya Allan).—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2025
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Kobach has petitioned top Republican lawmakers to convene a special session with the goal of blocking the Kansas Department of Revenue from resuming its practice of accommodating gender marker change requests, according to a letter sent to GOP lawmakers and obtained by The Star.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
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Dozens of students and faculty members convened in front of the school’s South Building, with many individuals wearing masks and holding flags, WRAL reported.—
Julia Bonavita , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Sharpe first came to attention of football fans when an interview for the Daily Mail Sports Instagram channel went viral ahead of the European Championship final, amassing over 80 million views in total.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
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Though the Yankees have used three of their top relievers (David Bednar, Devin Williams and Fernando Cruz) in the first two games, none amassed high pitch counts.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Only four days long, the mission stood out for demonstrating all of the skills needed to send astronauts to the moon, including rendezvousing and docking with an Agena target and the first successful spacewalks conducted by crewmate Buzz Aldrin.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
9 Aug. 2025
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On their way out of Belarus, the American convoy stopped on a village road to rendezvous with a van driven by the KGB.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Congregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congregate. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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