congregated

verb

past tense of congregate
1
as in gathered
to bring together in one body or place both captains congregated their team members for some pregame strategizing

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2
as in converged
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 congregated The chief said the Romare Bearden Park incident came just days after 200 to 300 teenagers congregated in the University City neighborhood of Charlotte, creating disorder and leaving several officers assaulted while trying to break up fights. — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026 Some 1,037 Marilyn lookalikes of every gender in white halter dresses and platinum blonde wigs congregated in downtown Palm Springs. — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Tucked in the opposite corner of the recreation center is a recording studio, where a small handful of teens have congregated. — Diamy Wang july 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026 Men and women congregated separately inside the Grand Mosalla after body searches and metal detector checks. — Nasser Karimi, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2026 Men and women congregated separately inside the Grand Mosalla after being checked by metal detectors and body searches. — Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026 Winthrop’s point was that the true church was anywhere where Christians congregated together. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026 People congregated around televisions, together, rubbing shoulders with all walks of life. — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 30 June 2026 Archaeologists also found artifacts such as pottery, animal bone, charcoal and worked flints, suggesting that people would have congregated here to celebrate the solstices. — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregated
  1. gathered
  2. converged
  3. assembled
  4. met
  5. collected
  6. convened
  7. grouped
  8. rendezvoused
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  • Photos capture the high-energy of Outside Lands, where 225,000 festivalgoers—75,000 per day—gathered in Golden Gate Park for a three-day celebration of music, culture, and community.
    — Ray Chavez, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The organization created a site for her story with all the information the family had gathered over the years.
    — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathered
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  • Other law enforcement agencies, including multiple SWAT teams, eventually converged at the scene, according to the court documents.
    — Stephen Swanson, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In Spokane, dry, windy conditions converged in what’s known as the wildland-urban interface – an area where neighborhoods have been built into the forests, shrublands and grasslands.
    — John Abatzoglou, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of converged
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  • Shuttle missions deployed and serviced satellites, launched the Hubble Space Telescope, assembled much of the International Space Station, and flew 135 missions over three decades.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
  • That mind is a model, an enormous statistical object assembled by feeding it a quantity of text and images nobody has ever fully itemized.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
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  • The local band leader Benjamin Washington was there, who Williams had not yet met.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Each day, a rotating group of about 25 dedicated volunteers operate the center to support about 40 to 50 unhoused individuals, ensuring their basic needs are met.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of met
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  • Instead of trying to locate bears in the wild, the survey relies on hair samples collected in barbed wire traps, which can be used to identify individual bears based on their DNA.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Steelers outgained Green Bay 385-160 and collected yardage in huge chunks at times on plays that had receivers running wide open against a vanilla defense more focused on fundamentals than elaborate schemes for a game that didn't count.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of collected
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  • By contrast, talks on the war between Russia and Ukraine have been convened intermittently, in multiple locations, and not once with all the relevant actors (Kyiv, Moscow, Washington, and key European states) at the table.
    — Matt Waldman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Under a new president, Louis Stout, the organization convened a task force of child safety experts.
    — Molly Hensley-Clancy, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of convened
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  • Some tell a coherent story when grouped; others are simply strange on their own terms.
    — Scott White, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Those metrics were then grouped into three categories — Cost & Financing, Education Outcomes and Career Outcomes — to determine each state's overall score.
    — Ahmed Jawadi, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of grouped
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  • 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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