as in gathering
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 converging
Initiatives at both the federal and state levels are converging.
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Krisztian Elcsics, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
As Euphoria’s third season enters its back half, our ensemble’s plotlines are, at long last, converging.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 11 May 2026
That’s the converging picture across Wall Street research and Main Street sentiment.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
Thomas sees these trends converging around a central theme.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 1 May 2026
Crossing over the converging Nile Rivers — the slow-moving but expansive Blue and White Niles meet in Khartoum — tables line the street with fresh watermelons, mangoes and bananas.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 26 Apr. 2026
More than 50 countries, including oil producers and major consumers, are converging in Colombia for a fossil-fuel exit conference.
—Fabiano Maisonnave, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Central Richmond gangs tend to congregate around Richmond’s Iron Triangle, an area near Carlson Boulevard that gets its name because of converging railroad tracks that form a triangular shape.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
The findings demonstrate how automation, biology, and machine learning are converging to reshape materials discovery at scale.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
Krisztian Elcsics, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
As Euphoria’s third season enters its back half, our ensemble’s plotlines are, at long last, converging.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 11 May 2026
That’s the converging picture across Wall Street research and Main Street sentiment.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
Thomas sees these trends converging around a central theme.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 1 May 2026
Crossing over the converging Nile Rivers — the slow-moving but expansive Blue and White Niles meet in Khartoum — tables line the street with fresh watermelons, mangoes and bananas.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 26 Apr. 2026
More than 50 countries, including oil producers and major consumers, are converging in Colombia for a fossil-fuel exit conference.
—Fabiano Maisonnave, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Central Richmond gangs tend to congregate around Richmond’s Iron Triangle, an area near Carlson Boulevard that gets its name because of converging railroad tracks that form a triangular shape.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
The findings demonstrate how automation, biology, and machine learning are converging to reshape materials discovery at scale.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for converging
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Climbers began gathering in April at the base camp, which is at an altitude of 17,340 feet.—
Pasang Rinzee Sherpa,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Among the military hardware was an Iranian Air Force RC-130, a reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering variant of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules tactical transport aircraft.—
James LaPorta,
CBS News,
11 May 2026
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Your connections are under a microscope, but clarity arrives around who’s meeting you halfway and who’s just enjoying access to you.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
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The interest rate climate is high and static right now, with another Federal Reserve meeting not even scheduled again until June.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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At its core, storytelling is still the nature of his work—finding the truths of a player’s prowess and assembling a narrative about his future performance.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Families are assembling adjacent estates over time, creating compounds designed to remain within clans for generations.—
Natalie Hoberman,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Many artists in the show are familiar to art audiences, but some, says Scheinman, will be brand new to the museum directors and curators, dealers, collectors and advisers convening in Switzerland this summer.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
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During the Cannes Film Festival, Goldfinch International and Fablemill will co-host a private gathering at the harbor convening senior figures from film commissions, government advisory bodies, fund managers, studios and technology founders across MENA, Southeast Asia, Africa and South Asia.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
6 May 2026
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After determining what this signature would look like, Vicente and colleagues searched through data gathered by LIGO and its fellow gravitational wave detectors, KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector) and Virgo, focusing on 28 of the clearest signals from merging black holes.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
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The companies say merging Papa Johns’ operation with Wing’s technology is a new strategy for solving last-mile delivery hurdles.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2026
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According to the team, the event is even more incredible knowing that the whales were congregating far before the peak migration period usually spanning March and April.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
8 Apr. 2026
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Over a two-year period, researchers at the Shark Lab used drones to study more than two dozen beaches up and down the California coastline and found juvenile white sharks congregating at two spots in southern Santa Barbara County and central San Diego County.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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