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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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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 Scotland fans had congregated in the old town square, so when the area’s bars ran out of alcohol, the riot police arrived expecting trouble.
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Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 3 June 2026
These gatherings are not organized the way teenagers congregated a generation ago.
—Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
The lack of these features in the mega-structure suggests that the residents might have congregated there for communal activities, potentially including governance, according to Archaeology Magazine.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026
After sunset, the crowd congregated for celebrations and shows at a large open-air theater for Caribbean dance performances, retro-themed fêtes, and rock music sessions.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2026
The result was that on Tuesday, thousands of kids, many of them high school seniors skipping school, congregated at Hampton Beach.
—Kristina Rex, CBS News, 22 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
The community congregated around FiveFourFive reflects in part Santeramo’s following, but it’s clearly grown past that.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
Crowds numbering in the hundreds then gathered at Chick-fil-A and surrounding businesses, where fights broke out and individuals illegally congregated.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 3 June 2026
These gatherings are not organized the way teenagers congregated a generation ago.
—Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
The lack of these features in the mega-structure suggests that the residents might have congregated there for communal activities, potentially including governance, according to Archaeology Magazine.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026
After sunset, the crowd congregated for celebrations and shows at a large open-air theater for Caribbean dance performances, retro-themed fêtes, and rock music sessions.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2026
The result was that on Tuesday, thousands of kids, many of them high school seniors skipping school, congregated at Hampton Beach.
—Kristina Rex, CBS News, 22 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
The community congregated around FiveFourFive reflects in part Santeramo’s following, but it’s clearly grown past that.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
Crowds numbering in the hundreds then gathered at Chick-fil-A and surrounding businesses, where fights broke out and individuals illegally congregated.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregated
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Since then, the orange legion has gathered at Henk's to watch the Dutch national team take the field.—
Dawn White,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
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Fans young and old gathered under the KC Live canopy Thursday to watch as Mexico beat South Africa 2-0.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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Investors should buckle up for a bumpy ride as multiple risks have suddenly converged to test what looked like an unstoppable stock rally.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
7 June 2026
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International dive teams that converged on the country's Xaisomboun province, where monsoon flood waters trapped the miners last month, were heading back home on Sunday, a search coordinator told ABC News.—
Aicha El Hammar Castano,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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Across a 90-foot wall at the Orlando Museum of Art, Tommerup assembled three monumental pyramids built from canvases dragged through the ocean and Biscayne Bay, dried in flowering trees and tossed from rooftops at dusk, surrendering part of the creative process to nature itself.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
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Those same instincts run through Dirty Blonde, an album that feels less engineered and more lived-in—shaped in real time rather than assembled from above.—
Desjah Altvater,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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The pope also met abuse survivors privately and urged Spain’s bishops to listen to victims and make reparations.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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The couple met at an audition for Landon’s Western series Father Murphy.—
Kelly Martinez,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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As detailed in the museum’s current exhibition on The Beautiful Game and described by Naylor, soldiers put arms aside, exchanged gifts, collected their dead, sang Christmas songs together and played soccer with each other.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
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The group is currently reviewing data collected by sensors placed in dozens of homes in neighborhoods such as Overtown, Little Haiti, and Liberty City.—
Manuel Bojorquez,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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Last week, a committee of scholars convened by Vanderbilt University released a report on the state of humanities and social sciences scholarship across the United States.—
Gary Saul Morson,
Washington Post,
10 June 2026
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No date was immediately set for the session, but the assembly said it would be convened as soon as possible.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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Mosquitoes are grouped for testing according to species, collection site and date.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
12 June 2026
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Officers and enlisted men grouped around nearest radios.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 June 2026
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However, unlike the X-37B, Shenlong has rendezvoused with other objects in space.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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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
Cite this Entry
“Congregated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congregated. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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