CONVENED Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

convened

verb

past tense of convene

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 Last week, a committee of scholars convened by Vanderbilt University released a report on the state of humanities and social sciences scholarship across the United States. —

Gary Saul Morson, Washington Post, 10 June 2026 No date was immediately set for the session, but the assembly said it would be convened as soon as possible. —

CBS News, 9 June 2026 Attorney General Ellison convened a strategic-facilitation process among the U, Fairview and M Physicians in March last year, naming Lois Quam as facilitator in April of that year. —

Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 9 June 2026 In a gesture reflecting the move from monarchical privilege to democratic consulting, a committee was convened in the new country to create the Great Seal of the United States. —

Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026 As night fell on a warm Friday in May, a group of teenagers convened to practice at an at-home recording space inside an upscale Oak Park home. —

Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026 The team convened in Georgia last month before playing two friendlies in the past eight days. —

ABC News, 8 June 2026 Valdés notes that Miami has become a business hub in part because of the work of many of the entrepreneurs who joined the group convened by Sixto and his brother Rafael, an architect who is preparing a proposal for the island’s architectural reconstruction. —

Sarah Moreno june 4, Miami Herald, 4 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

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New Delhi has also summoned Washington’s Chargé d’Affaires to lodge a protest, according to sources at India’s Ministry of External Affairs.

— Arpita Dasika, CNN Money, 11 June 2026
Knights summoned to England for vengeance.

— James Horncastle, New York Times, 10 June 2026