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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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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
Television networks interrupted regular broadcasts to cover the news, and President Clinton convened a Rose Garden press conference to comment on it.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 June 2026
The Florida Legislature, which is controlled by a Republican supermajority, convened this week to decide whether to put the Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes resolution on the November ballot.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 June 2026
Baltimore's ballot processing The Baltimore City Board of Elections convened its canvassing board Monday and is preparing to process replacement ballots as more arrive.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 1 June 2026
Just days after the workers lodged these complaints, Spesshardt convened a meeting.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
Following the roll out of a discussion draft in March, policymakers convened a bipartisan members roundtable in May to confer about crypto taxation architecture.
—Cleve Mesidor, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
More news to know now Trump convened the cabinet.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 28 May 2026
Nine months later, shareholders convened again at Kering’s headquarters to discuss the new executive’s early moves.
—Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 28 May 2026
He’d been invited to a brainstorm convened by Nathan Myhrvold, a polymath inventor.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 June 2026
The Florida Legislature, which is controlled by a Republican supermajority, convened this week to decide whether to put the Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes resolution on the November ballot.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 June 2026
Baltimore's ballot processing The Baltimore City Board of Elections convened its canvassing board Monday and is preparing to process replacement ballots as more arrive.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 1 June 2026
Just days after the workers lodged these complaints, Spesshardt convened a meeting.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
Following the roll out of a discussion draft in March, policymakers convened a bipartisan members roundtable in May to confer about crypto taxation architecture.
—Cleve Mesidor, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
More news to know now Trump convened the cabinet.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 28 May 2026
Nine months later, shareholders convened again at Kering’s headquarters to discuss the new executive’s early moves.
—Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 28 May 2026
He’d been invited to a brainstorm convened by Nathan Myhrvold, a polymath inventor.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convened
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Five others escaped the cave’s narrow tunnels after rescue efforts by international experts summoned to the perilous cave in central Laos.—
Kocha Olarn,
CNN Money,
1 June 2026
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Hernandez summoned national media hurricanes to two high school track seasons and a volleyball season in the span of one year.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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As national movements for racial justice gathered momentum a decade ago, students on campuses were also becoming more aware and outspoken about racial harms.—
Ingrid A. Nelson,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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The airy confines of the stately home where Allied commanders are gathered provide both the grandeur and the contrast to the minutiae inked out on vast maps in the small hours of the night.—
Daniel Jonah Wolpert,
NPR,
29 May 2026
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That was all the offense either team mustered for a while.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
27 May 2026
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New York mustered only six runs during the skid and had scored two or fewer in each of its previous six games.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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Larry King and Billie Jean King met at Cal State Los Angeles and married in 1965.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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The game Friday was the fourth year in a row the Colts and Highlanders met in the finals, and with the exception of 2025, the Colts have won each time.—
Ethan Hanson,
Daily News,
30 May 2026
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The rapidly ballooning market of the 1980s accommodated both kinds of art—art that might have been called critical, as well as art that might have been termed complicit, Pictures artists and neo-expressionists alike.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Food and drink Four Seasons has two properties in Istanbul—this, and its sister set on the stretch of the shore lined with former palace-cum-hotels that could be called the Posh-phorus.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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More than 250,000 people converged on Soldier Field in Chicago for the opening of the Catholic Church’s 28th International Eucharistic Congress.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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At the Sana Summit, all of those threads converged into a philosophically complete argument.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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North Korea already has enough nuclear material for up to 90 warheads and is believed to have assembled around 50, according to a Congressional Research Service report from March.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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The city has assembled a working group led by former Visit Fort Worth CEO Bob Jameson that will include city council member Beck along with her colleagues District 5 council member Deborah Peoples, District 7 council member Macy Hill, and District 11 council member Jeanette Martinez.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 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
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“Convened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convened. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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