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congregated

verb

past tense of congregate

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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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 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 But nothing compared to the overflowing crowds that congregated after Saturday’s championship clincher. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026 Early on during the march, firefighters extinguished a Tesla that was set ablaze next to the central bus stop and a phalanx of riot police cordoned off a secure area as a crowd congregated nearby. — Jamey Keaten, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026

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Earlier this month, Monopol reported that VAU had gathered support from 107 artists, including Renate Bertlmann, Ernst Caramelle, Jakob Lena Knebl, and Eva Schlegel, to launch a fair to fill this gap.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 20 July 2026
Two weeks after Sayveon’s disappearance, family, friends, and his Kroger co-workers gathered at Forest Hills Park in Charlottesville.

— Meghan O'Brien, NBC news, 20 July 2026

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Late in extra time, Tielemans and opponent Lamine Camara converged on the ball.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 22 July 2026
On Friday, the FDA, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced that the FDA’s traceback investigations for the outbreak converged on Taylor Farms.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026

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As Spain’s World Cup-winning heroes assembled on the podium, opponents Argentina, bedraggled and beaten, turned their backs.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
The site where Americans learned to work with the last foreign future is where the next one is being assembled.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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The extradition process requires a hearing before a US judge to determine whether the treaty’s requirements are met, but the final decision is made by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who retains discretion to deny extradition.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
The two women met at UnlikelyAI, the startup founded by William Tunstall-Pedoe, who played a leading role in the development of Amazon Alexa, but were keen to launch their own venture and took inspiration from their families’ experience.

— David Prosser, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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Closer Aroldis Chapman collected seven saves in the 15-game stretch.

— Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Unlike LLMs like ChatGPT, which can parse the virtually boundless internet, robots need manipulation data collected in the real physical world, which is costly and difficult to scale.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 July 2026

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But the panel of outside advisers convened for the meeting includes at least seven doctors or pharmacists with financial ties to the peptide industry.

— Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 23 July 2026
On infant formula, Makary convened the world’s leading experts to modernize and expand the ingredient lists—called monographs—that the agency uses to regulate the products.

— Avik Roy, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

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Brady was grouped with Novak Djokovic and eventual overall winner Justin Bieber (both of whom hit multiple shots from the three-point line).

— David Betancourt, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Among the diverse international literatures grouped together under that heading, there are dozens of writers who reinvented literature to cope with ruptures of their own.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 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

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