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 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 Gay people found each other, by either word of mouth or the back pages of QNotes Carolinas, a local LGBTQ newspaper, and congregated in those areas. — Charlotte Observer, 22 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
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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  • 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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  • Detectives then converged on the vehicle and took the driver into custody.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
  • Roughly 350 officers from Newport Beach and 17 other agencies including Irvine, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the California Highway Patrol converged in the area.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 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
Definition of assembled
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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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  • Another instrument, the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, has collected data that has thrown New Horizon’s team a curveball, Brandt said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • Our methodology To find the best business insurance for online and e-commerce companies, CNBC Select collected hundreds of data points on more than 10 companies offering business insurance.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of collected
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  • Earlier Thursday, Padilla also convened faith leaders and political figures in a roundtable discussion to defend voting rights and remember the legacy of civil rights hero John Lewis.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
  • On Thursday, Jim Cramer and portfolio director Jeff Marks convened the CNBC Investing Club's July Monthly Meeting.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of convened
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  • The names are intermixed rather than grouped geographically, suggesting the indivisibility of Greater Hungary despite modern borders.
    — Brett R. Chloupek, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
  • El Salvador has made this form of collective trials possible under a July 2023 reform of its criminal code, which allows for those detained under the state of emergency to be grouped according to their gangs or territories.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
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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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