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as in collecting
to bring together in one body or place
both captains congregated their team members for some pregame strategizing
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as in gathering
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 congregating
All attendees would go through security screening, and congregating in hallways would not be allowed.
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Matthew Davisson,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
And unlike some of the things that might spread during this event, there’s been a lot of evidence based on what’s happened at other World Cups, Olympic events, any time large numbers of people are congregating.
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Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
The scenes of thousands of fans congregating to welcome the team bus on arrival are emblematic of the transformation.
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James McNicholas,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
According to the team, the event is even more incredible knowing that the whales were congregating far before the peak migration period usually spanning March and April.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
8 Apr. 2026
Over a two-year period, researchers at the Shark Lab used drones to study more than two dozen beaches up and down the California coastline and found juvenile white sharks congregating at two spots in southern Santa Barbara County and central San Diego County.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
Vandals quickly stripped it bare, from its electrical wiring to its rooftop mechanicals, and loiterers congregating outside its doors and in its parking lot sometimes numbered in the dozens during a difficult post-pandemic downturn for the Midway.
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Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
18 Mar. 2026
Other affinity groups, including Trans in Classics and CripAntiquity, started congregating around the same time.
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Chang Che,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
And with birds congregating so closely together, diseases will spread quickly.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Mar. 2026
Matthew Davisson,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
And unlike some of the things that might spread during this event, there’s been a lot of evidence based on what’s happened at other World Cups, Olympic events, any time large numbers of people are congregating.
—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
The scenes of thousands of fans congregating to welcome the team bus on arrival are emblematic of the transformation.
—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
According to the team, the event is even more incredible knowing that the whales were congregating far before the peak migration period usually spanning March and April.
—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
8 Apr. 2026
Over a two-year period, researchers at the Shark Lab used drones to study more than two dozen beaches up and down the California coastline and found juvenile white sharks congregating at two spots in southern Santa Barbara County and central San Diego County.
—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
Vandals quickly stripped it bare, from its electrical wiring to its rooftop mechanicals, and loiterers congregating outside its doors and in its parking lot sometimes numbered in the dozens during a difficult post-pandemic downturn for the Midway.
—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
18 Mar. 2026
Other affinity groups, including Trans in Classics and CripAntiquity, started congregating around the same time.
—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
And with birds congregating so closely together, diseases will spread quickly.
—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregating
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At donation centers across Miami-Dade County, members of the Venezuelan community are collecting supplies for victims while anxiously waiting for news from home.
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The government argued both that Chatrie had tacitly agreed to Google collecting the information and that Chatrie had no reasonable expectation of privacy in third-party Google’s records.
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Immigrant communities from soccer-playing nations are gathering for watch parties to support their teams.
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Avoid Steering Customers Toward ‘Yes’ A common mistake is to ask steering questions when gathering customer feedback.
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Erika Bahr, founder and CEO of Daxe, had spent over a year assembling this coalition, intentionally collapsing the walls between every stakeholder in women’s economic participation into a single room.
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This unique telescope is using the world’s largest digital camera to scan the entire southern sky every few nights, assembling what will become the most lavishly detailed time-lapse of the cosmos humanity has ever envisioned.
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Despite global tech fragmentation and rivalries, major powers are surprisingly converging on addressing AI's most catastrophic risks.
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Zeller said the idea grew out of several converging trends, from the enduring popularity of baking shows to the explosion of baking videos on TikTok and the broader family appeal of food as entertainment.
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Since SpaceX, which Musk founded, began amassing the orbital satellite constellation in 2019, Starlink has become known for providing service to areas around the world where internet access is often elusive.
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With the passage of Thursday’s law, both sides have agreed to pull their respective measures from the November ballot, halting campaigns that had both parties amassing tens of millions in funding and blanketing the airwaves with ads.
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Their lives gradually shift after meeting No Yeong-ju, an optimistic singing instructor played by Im Ji-eun, whose positive outlook encourages both women to confront their past.
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The warning is the second issued by UCSB police since May, when an 18-year-old freshman reported she was raped and strangled after meeting a man at a Sigma Pi fraternity party before returning to her dorm at Tropicana Gardens in Isla Vista.
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More women are inheriting wealth, accumulating it earlier and making investment decisions independently.
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And while the images of crowded fountains and shuttered schools dominate the headlines, the economic damage is already accumulating in ways most employers and policymakers have barely begun to reckon with.
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In April of this year, the largest EdTech convening ASU-GSV was abuzz with the word agency.
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The Semiquincentennial Commission was conjured into being by Congress back in 2016, during that long-ago summer when the Democratic Party was convening in Philadelphia and the succession of one form of representational liberalism to another seemed pretty well secure.
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“Congregating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congregating. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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