as in gathered
to come together into one body or place
hungry students converged on the cafeteria almost as soon as the class bell rang
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Recent Examples of converged
Immediately defenders Jared Spurgeon and Zeev Buium converged, prepared to clear the zone.
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
Still, this past August, 80,000 people converged in the Nevada desert to set up what aspires to be a peaceful global village.
—Dennis Hinkamp, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
Then came my chapter at Motown, where the label’s iconic history and its future converged under my leadership as Chairwoman and CEO.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Yes, tens of thousands of Nepalis converged on Discord to deliberate on the selection of a new leader, and turned to ChatGPT to settle the debate.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Nevertheless, Herbert evaded two defenders who converged on him.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Despite the thousands of people who converged on the stadium, the event went smoothly with few hiccups.
—Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
In the next two years, work from several researchers converged to show that endophytes can be beneficial to plants.
—Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
Women today face unsustainable demands on our time and efforts largely because economic forces have created an environment where gender roles have converged in the workplace and yet have not converged at home.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
Still, this past August, 80,000 people converged in the Nevada desert to set up what aspires to be a peaceful global village.
—Dennis Hinkamp, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
Then came my chapter at Motown, where the label’s iconic history and its future converged under my leadership as Chairwoman and CEO.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Yes, tens of thousands of Nepalis converged on Discord to deliberate on the selection of a new leader, and turned to ChatGPT to settle the debate.
—Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Nevertheless, Herbert evaded two defenders who converged on him.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Despite the thousands of people who converged on the stadium, the event went smoothly with few hiccups.
—Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
In the next two years, work from several researchers converged to show that endophytes can be beneficial to plants.
—Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
Women today face unsustainable demands on our time and efforts largely because economic forces have created an environment where gender roles have converged in the workplace and yet have not converged at home.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for converged
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Days after a gunman drove a truck into a Grand Blanc Township church and opened fire on worshippers, killing four people and wounding eight, hundreds gathered in Flint for a community safety briefing focused on crisis response and prevention in houses of worship.—
Nour Rahal,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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On Tuesday night, hundreds of people gathered to remember the teenagers, according to CNN affiliate WABC.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Green Hill first met in a school house and then a building along Tate Lane that later became the Masonic Lodge.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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The couple met on a blind date arranged by friends in May 2022.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Reaching the Frontier Over the past year, ByteDance has assembled top AI talent, hiring a former vice president of Google DeepMind to lead AI foundational research and luring other engineers and researchers away from Alibaba and other start-ups, the Financial Times reported in December.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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They were delivered fully assembled and dynamically balanced from the company’s production base on the Yangtze River.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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The Enola Gay flew to Iwo Jima, 3-1/2 hours away, circled once and rendezvoused with the photo and gauge B-29s.—
David Perlmutt,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Aug. 2025
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Under duress, the FCC convened an emergency meeting on the matter of Mae West.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Instead, Newsom convened a panel of AI experts, who published a report in June offering policy recommendations.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Converged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/converged. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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