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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
On a good sunset evening, at least a dozen vehicles may congregate along the roadway edge.
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Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
Large groups of pin traders who congregate near Westward Ho Trading Company cause congestion at the busy Frontierland entrance, according to Mickey Visit.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
Typically, fruit flies congregate around food sources, especially trash cans and fruits sitting in countertop bowls.
—Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 13 May 2026
In Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, with permission from the police department, the principal of the local high school, school staff members and dozens of parents congregated along the street where a teen takeover was planned.
—Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 11 May 2026
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Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2026
Large groups of pin traders who congregate near Westward Ho Trading Company cause congestion at the busy Frontierland entrance, according to Mickey Visit.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
Typically, fruit flies congregate around food sources, especially trash cans and fruits sitting in countertop bowls.
—Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 13 May 2026
In Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, with permission from the police department, the principal of the local high school, school staff members and dozens of parents congregated along the street where a teen takeover was planned.
—Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 11 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregate
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Movie night is a chance for the Islanders to gather together to witness some of the major moments and own up and apologize.—
Carolyn Burt,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
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Helicopter footage captured by NBC4 showed police tape cordoning off a section of the residential street, where a large number of emergency responders were gathered.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2026
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Typically on the first day, many pilgrims in Mecca converge on a vast tent camp in the nearby desert.—
Baraa Anwer,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2026
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Relying too heavily on sequence data can create blind spots, especially when studying lineages separated by hundreds of millions of years as DNA changes accumulate, disappear and sometimes converge independently.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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That saving gets split roughly three ways among Cibus, the seed company and the farmer, and Cibus collects $20 to $30 per acre in royalties.—
Noelle Harff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2026
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The crew’s mission is to track down three high-value bounties and collect cargo along the way.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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But this drone was designed to fly in the open air, and never got a chance to venture into the lava tubes before ultimately meeting its demise in 2024.—
Tom Brown,
Space.com,
25 May 2026
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In Florida, Florida Power & Light, the state’s largest utility, has pursued rate increases for years to fund infrastructure and meet rapid growth.—
Iulia Lupse,
Sun Sentinel,
24 May 2026
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Nothing is mysterious about these history-making Knicks, other than the executive who assembled them.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Long before ChatGPT made generative AI mainstream, Gil was quietly assembling positions across nearly every layer of the emerging ecosystem.—
TrueBridge Capital,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Trump will instead convene his Cabinet at the White House, the president said in a post on Truth Social.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
27 May 2026
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And when a City Council committee convened Tuesday to dissect the events, things got heated as exasperated council members grilled city staff about their response to the trio of problems.—
Drew Kann,
AJC.com,
26 May 2026
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For seven minutes after the final whistle, players and staff stood on the edge of the penalty area applauding the Liverpool supporters amassed in the Bill Shankly Kop as the Jota song remained on loop.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Accounts dedicated to college advice and prep have amassed millions of followers.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Artemis 3 is planned for late 2027, and will launch NASA's Orion capsule with a crew of astronauts to rendezvous and dock with Starship in LEO to assess the spacecrafts' ability to link up in orbit.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
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Both landers are being designed to rendezvous with NASA astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit and then ferry them to the surface.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
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“Congregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congregate. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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