congregates

verb

present tense third-person singular of congregate
1
as in gathers
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 meets
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 congregates Set the scene A local crowd spanning generations has just spilled out of an artist talk in the art gallery, and now congregates by the crackling fireplace in the vibey bar area of Juliette. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 Like a mountain peak, sharp and pointy, where dark matter congregates. — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregates
  1. gathers
  2. meets
  3. assembles
  4. converges
  5. collects
  6. convenes
  7. amasses
  8. accumulates
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  • Rooms open toward the water, the terrace gathers the view from three sides and the modest footprint keeps the experience close.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Once the story gathers everyone into the house and lets the mayhem start in earnest, an overall feeling of Gothic grimness and rotting-corpse griminess takes hold.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2026
Definition of gathers
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  • Knowing where a company sits in the AI stack, where agentic meets generative, and how to assess servers versus storage is becoming ever more crucial for tracking the runners and riders in the AI race.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 15 July 2026
  • Norway have two players, including Erling Haaland, free at the far post when Ajer meets the ball.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of meets
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  • An employee assembles a long-range drone in a workshop of the Fire Point company which manufactures FP-1 deep-strike drones and FP-2 strike drones in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on January 29, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • In terms of overall quality, the movie the player assembles out of that 652-page framework isn’t bad!
    — Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
Definition of assembles
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  • The reviewer's eye glides over patterns it has been trained to trust, and the review converges to a ritual approval regardless of risk profile.
    — Kevin Cushnie, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • The expansion converges with a sense of urgency among Democrats to be more aggressive on digital platforms, where audiences are increasingly concentrated.
    — Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of converges
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  • If your shop collects customer data online, cyber liability insurance could be a smart move to guard against cyber attacks, data breaches and other situations where you could be held liable for exposing information.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • First established in 2018 to start building up money for the county’s SMART Plan to extend rail countywide, the reserve collects property taxes from properties close to Miami-Dade’s mass-transit lines.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
Definition of collects
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  • After the world’s most awkward funeral, everyone convenes back at the family’s nearby vacation house.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2026
  • Her leadership convenes cross-sector stakeholders to scale high-impact models that expand opportunity — particularly for emerging institutions and underserved communities.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 18 June 2026
Definition of convenes
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  • Kang amasses writings from over the course of her career, beginning with her Nobel lecture and reaching deep into her life’s documents, with diaries, poems, and photographs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • The Texas native collects coveted roles and franchise parts like Thanos amasses Infinity Stones or Tom Hanks stockpiles vintage typewriters.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Mar. 2026
Definition of amasses
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  • So perhaps a certain signaling molecule preferentially accumulates more on one side of a neural progenitor cell than the other.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 13 July 2026
  • Confidence in findings develops over time as evidence accumulates and results are weighed alongside all available research.
    — Dannell D. Boatman, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
Definition of accumulates

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