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 The agency convened a meeting of independent outside advisers in June to consider the vaccine. — Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026 On June 25 of this year the group convened a Capitol Hill forum in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Aug. 2026 The governing board convened on July 30, and the technical steering committee is forming next. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 By 2009, the province had convened a National Commission on Dying with Dignity to decide, formally, how far that right extended. — Sai Rajagopal, STAT, 4 Aug. 2026 The first would be a special session, which can be convened by Pritzker or a joint proclamation by the presiding officers of both chambers of the General Assembly. — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026 The Vatican’s department of culture and education convened a group of scholars at the beginning of the AI boom to discuss its impact. — Walter Scheirer, The Conversation, 31 July 2026 So on Thursday, a small group of a little more than two dozen environmental justice advocates convened in Oakland to march to Wicks’ district office and present her staff with a letter asking the lawmaker to back Senate Bill 954. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026 Thursday's hearing had a few awkward moments that were perhaps fitting for a federal court that has never before convened in history. — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convened
  1. summoned
  2. gathered
  3. mustered
  4. met
  5. called
  6. converged
  7. assembled
  8. rendezvoused
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  • In one case, an employee was summoned out of her office just before a bullet struck the window in front of her desk.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The tech behemoth briefly restricted a Facebook post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing students during the Gen Z protests in July, just days after regulators summoned the company over concerns about child-abuse content.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
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  • The intervention on Thursday and Friday came as the Bank of Japan board gathered to set monetary policy.
    — Mia Glass, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • As the official automotive sponsor of Stateside, Scout anchored its own corner of Stateside — starting with the Scout Stage — where a steady stream of emerging artists kept festival-goers gathered throughout the day.
    — Lori Majewski, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathered
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  • Despite drawing eight walks Tuesday, the Braves could only scratch across three runs and mustered only four hits in an 8-3 loss to the Padres at Truist Park.
    — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 22 July 2026
  • But against the first-place Brewers, the Giants mustered a 1-0 win.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Definition of mustered
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  • Both men sat in opposite corners afterward before Reigns walked to the center and offered a fist, and Rollins met it.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Last August, the International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution declaring that Israel’s actions met the legal definition of genocide.
    — Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of met
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  • Meghan personally called animal rights attorney Shannon Keith, who runs the Beagle Freedom Project, after hearing about 4,000 beagles being rescued from overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at the Envigo breeding and research plant in Virginia.
    — Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Five students between 12 and 13 years old were killed in what officials called the worst school shooting in decades.
    — Mark Morales, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of called
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  • In Spokane, dry, windy conditions converged in what’s known as the wildland-urban interface – an area where neighborhoods have been built into the forests, shrublands and grasslands.
    — John Abatzoglou, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
  • More than two dozen marine units from multiple agencies converged on the scene within minutes, officials say.
    — Andrew Ramos, CBS News, 29 July 2026
Definition of converged
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  • Shuttle missions deployed and serviced satellites, launched the Hubble Space Telescope, assembled much of the International Space Station, and flew 135 missions over three decades.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
  • That mind is a model, an enormous statistical object assembled by feeding it a quantity of text and images nobody has ever fully itemized.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
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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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