as in convocation
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1
as in summoning
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 meeting
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 convening
arkansasonline.com, 4 Jan. 2025
Washington — The Senate is convening as the 119th Congress gets underway on Friday, as a dozen new senators join the ranks of the Capitol's upper chamber.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
With the House done for the year, the Senate won't be taking up any bills that originated in its chamber, since House lawmakers aren't convening to consider anything senators already passed.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2024
Electors were convening to cast their electoral votes Tuesday at state Capitols around the nation; not just in Michigan.
—Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2024
The readings come as investors closely watch signals from Chinese leaders, who are convening this week in Beijing for a series of key meetings on economic planning for the coming year.
—Peter Catterall, Fortune Asia, 10 Dec. 2024
The announcement of the Creator Council is likely to elicit its share of skepticism and even snark from the golf social media community, questioning what the Tour truly aims to achieve by convening this group of influencers.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
In theory, the holidays should be a time of joyfully convening around sumptuous homemade meals and giving thanks for life’s great bounty.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2024
The company followed the ad shift by convening its first upfront event for media buyers, during the main week of presentations in New York by legacy media giants as well as Netflix and YouTube.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
Verb
Adkins continued convening her own camps until 1933 and later offered them from 1939 to 1949.
—arkansasonline.com, 4 Jan. 2025
Washington — The Senate is convening as the 119th Congress gets underway on Friday, as a dozen new senators join the ranks of the Capitol's upper chamber.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
With the House done for the year, the Senate won't be taking up any bills that originated in its chamber, since House lawmakers aren't convening to consider anything senators already passed.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2024
Electors were convening to cast their electoral votes Tuesday at state Capitols around the nation; not just in Michigan.
—Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2024
The readings come as investors closely watch signals from Chinese leaders, who are convening this week in Beijing for a series of key meetings on economic planning for the coming year.
—Peter Catterall, Fortune Asia, 10 Dec. 2024
The announcement of the Creator Council is likely to elicit its share of skepticism and even snark from the golf social media community, questioning what the Tour truly aims to achieve by convening this group of influencers.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
In theory, the holidays should be a time of joyfully convening around sumptuous homemade meals and giving thanks for life’s great bounty.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2024
The company followed the ad shift by convening its first upfront event for media buyers, during the main week of presentations in New York by legacy media giants as well as Netflix and YouTube.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for convening
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Kuang brought a crowd to its feet as the convocation speaker at Georgetown University.—
Jamie Merisotis,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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UofA's 2025 Adalberto and Ana Guerrero Student Center graduation celebration was called a convocation on the university's website as recently as Feb. 21, per the Wayback Machine web archive.—
Jessica Boehm,
Axios,
6 Mar. 2025
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In the latest version of the Files by Google app, summoning Gemini while looking at a PDF gives you the option to ask about the file, writes Android Police.—
Wes Davis,
The Verge,
21 Dec. 2024
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By the 1980s, when more modern methods of summoning help had supplanted its usefulness, the tower remained as a beacon for bored teenagers.—
Jessica Garrison,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Dec. 2024
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A question of intent About 10 months later, troopers returned to Whittier and issued court summonses to Pese, eight other relatives and one man who was not related but came from the same American Samoa village as Pese.—
Mark Thiessen,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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Last month, his NYPD started handing out criminal instead of civil summonses to bike riders for running red lights or otherwise riding recklessly, a drastic shift that has outraged transit advocates and City Council members who note car drivers do not face such penalties for similar infractions.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2025
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Now that Easter is approaching and the family will be gathering together, the woman is concerned about once again putting her elder daughter in an uncomfortable position of being excluded.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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An intense scrupulousness is still required of those tasked with gathering insight into players.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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In short, these converging trends point toward a future where connectivity is not just pervasive but also secure, efficient and environmentally conscious.—
Max Silber,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Their collision at the Austrian GP, an inevitable result of their converging performance, was disappointing.—
Luke Smith,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Judged by those criteria, neither Macron’s proposal nor any other option for an independent European nuclear deterrent currently passes muster.—
FLORENCE GAUB,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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But Democrats announced on Sunday that the parliamentarian, a nonpartisan arbiter of the upper chamber’s rules, found that this provision did not pass muster.—
Rachel Frazin,
The Hill,
23 June 2025
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As lockdowns quickly spread across the country, the cast and crew are not only quarantined in their hotel but also isolated in their rooms, banned from assembling and even from entering the corridors.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2025
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Leaders are recognizing this opportunity, and assembling relocation programs that make the moves a little easier, and integrate new residents into the community.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Convening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convening. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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