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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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Save Girls’ Sports activists gathered outside Yorba Linda High School in protest, which OutKick documented firsthand through conversations with parents and attendees at the meet.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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Before the team’s departure, the staff gathered for a final walk-through.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 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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The country has spent two decades building museums, commissioning public art, and assembling blue-chip collections.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
20 May 2026
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As per Bull, the system is based on a modular design, with the supercomputer pre-assembled in containers before being shipped to Airbus’s sites.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
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Seidman founded and chairs the How Institute for Society, which convened a group of leaders in business, academia, philanthropy and media yesterday to talk about the state of How in advance of Seidman being honored by 92NY.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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In the coming weeks, the council plans to convene a group of community advocates and experts to make recommendations on what those regulations should be.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
19 May 2026
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As Puck reported in March, L Catterton had been on the hunt for an investor, hoping to clear about $90 million of debt Everlane had amassed.—
Bella Webb,
Vogue,
22 May 2026
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The Cockroach Janta Party, its name a satirical riff on the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party, has amassed more than 19 million Instagram followers in less than a week, almost double the government’s audience.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
22 May 2026
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The space agency is also angling to test Starship’s ability to rendezvous and dock with its own crew capsule, Orion, in Earth orbit in 2027.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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The company is racing to have Starship ready for next year’s revamped Artemis III mission, which calls for Starship’s upper stage to rendezvous with NASA’s Orion capsule — the same vehicle that carried the Artemis II astronauts around the moon last month — while orbiting Earth.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
17 May 2026
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“Congregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congregate. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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