converged

past tense of converge

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Recent Examples of converged Other law enforcement agencies, including multiple SWAT teams, eventually converged at the scene, according to the court documents. Stephen Swanson, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026 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 Two competitors, working independently and with different architectures, have converged on shipping a new frontier model about every two months. Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 And somehow — because this is how life on the cocktail party circuit works sometimes — their paths converged, maybe 30 yards from Babe Ruth’s plaque and just around the corner from the goosebumpy Ted Williams sculpture. Jayson Stark, New York Times, 27 July 2026 Over the July 4 holiday weekend, several thousand young people converged in two spots in Raleigh, North Carolina, police said. Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 25 July 2026 On Friday, the FDA, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced that the FDA’s traceback investigations for the outbreak converged on Taylor Farms. Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026 Teams from across Romania — and the world — converged in the capital to stress-test emergency plans. Andrei Popoviciu, The Dial, 21 July 2026 Nearly three dozen women from 10 countries — including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia — converged on the field in Bolivia's lowland city of Santa Cruz for five days of training that concluded Friday with friendly matches. ABC News, 17 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for converged
Verb
  • Photos capture the high-energy of Outside Lands, where 225,000 festivalgoers—75,000 per day—gathered in Golden Gate Park for a three-day celebration of music, culture, and community.
    Ray Chavez, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The organization created a site for her story with all the information the family had gathered over the years.
    Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The local band leader Benjamin Washington was there, who Williams had not yet met.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Each day, a rotating group of about 25 dedicated volunteers operate the center to support about 40 to 50 unhoused individuals, ensuring their basic needs are met.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • By contrast, talks on the war between Russia and Ukraine have been convened intermittently, in multiple locations, and not once with all the relevant actors (Kyiv, Moscow, Washington, and key European states) at the table.
    Matt Waldman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Under a new president, Louis Stout, the organization convened a task force of child safety experts.
    Molly Hensley-Clancy, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2026

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“Converged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/converged. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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