convened

verb

past tense of convene
1
as in summoned
to bring together in assembly by or as if by command convened the members of the council for an emergency session

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2
as in gathered
to come together into one body or place the conventioneers convened in the auditorium to hear the guest speaker

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Recent Examples of convened New York City voters have five proposals on the backs of their ballots courtesy of Mayor Mamdani’s Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE), convened earlier this year. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026 The dismissal follows days of testimony in a series of rare public hearings Faruqui convened to determine whether the government's case against Floris and Benavides met the low bar of probable cause. — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026 After its initial success, engineers in Silicon Valley were surprised at how abusive users were and convened emergency meetings to deal with the issue, Gillies says. — Will Tizard, Variety, 1 Nov. 2026 In the spring of 2005, the United Nations convened more than 100 of the world’s top scientists in the medieval town of Oviedo, Spain. — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026 Top executives convened for a panel hosted by The Female Quotient and F1 Academy during the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 29 Oct. 2026 Whether convened online or in person, the groups that gather via popular culture do not fit into the partisan silos that have formed around news and social media outlets. — Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2026 As the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee – its top leadership body – convened its annual plenum this week in Beijing, only 279 of the 376 members installed four years ago attended. — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2026 Despite that lack of evidence, the loosening of restrictions has come after the FDA began analyzing how to make the substances more accessible and convened a panel to discuss allowing compounding pharmacies to manufacture them. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convened
  1. summoned
  2. gathered
  3. mustered
  4. met
  5. called
  6. converged
  7. assembled
  8. rendezvoused
Verb
  • These songs leave a lot to the imagination, so these kids are summoned in these poetic portraits.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky ran the guest house where witnesses summoned to Nuremberg were lodged, which meant that victims of Nazism and perpetrators of it slept in adjacent bedrooms, passed one another on the stairs and took meals at the same table.
    — Natalie Livingstone, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
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  • This week, ahead of Abu Dhabi’s flagship energy conference ADIPEC, senior executives and CEOs from the energy industry gathered to discuss the challenges facing the industry under the Chatham House Rule.
    — Amena Bakr, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • At the news conference, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said investigators at his office gathered video evidence, interviewed witnesses and worked closely with prosecutors to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of gathered
Verb
  • The Wave, Eidevall duly noted, mustered a seven-month run worth remembering.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The day Childress finally mustered the courage to ask his superiors how to quit, he was met with bafflement.
    — Francisco Cantú, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of mustered
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  • The couple met in 2018 through a Mormon dating app and tied the knot the next year, before welcoming their first child, Nora, in November 2021.
    — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Extra oxygen atoms helped balance the charge where neighboring regions met.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of met
Verb
  • But on November 29, 1777, a small group of Spanish settlers moved into the area to establish a civilian agricultural town, called El Pueblo de San Jose, to provide food for the missions and presidios.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Their calculations used a feature of the model called a universal scaling function, which describes how physical quantities with dimensions, such as length, change over cosmic time.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of called
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  • Most recently, more than fifty thousand students, parents, and teachers converged there to demand better staffing and resources in French schools.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Eisenkot drove him to his unit’s base, where lines of cars were already forming as reservists converged.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of converged
Verb
  • Saudi Arabia assembled a coalition backing the government, waging a yearslong campaign of air bombardment that brought it international condemnation over civilian deaths.
    — AHMED HATEM, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Its latest product is a magnetic modular display system designed to be assembled quickly, packed away when not in use, and used to add up to three additional screens to a laptop.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of assembled
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  • According to Treasury, fishing vessels secretly rendezvoused at sea with smaller go-fast boats carrying cocaine north through the eastern Pacific.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu four years later.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 28 June 2026
Definition of rendezvoused

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“Convened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convened. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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