CONVOKED Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

convoked

verb

past tense of convoke

as in summoned

to bring together in assembly by or as if by command convoked the leading experts on juvenile delinquency to study the situation

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These songs leave a lot to the imagination, so these kids are summoned in these poetic portraits.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
Countess Ingeborg Kálnoky ran the guest house where witnesses summoned to Nuremberg were lodged, which meant that victims of Nazism and perpetrators of it slept in adjacent bedrooms, passed one another on the stairs and took meals at the same table.

— Natalie Livingstone, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026

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New York City voters have five proposals on the backs of their ballots courtesy of Mayor Mamdani’s Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE), convened earlier this year.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
The dismissal follows days of testimony in a series of rare public hearings Faruqui convened to determine whether the government's case against Floris and Benavides met the low bar of probable cause.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

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But on November 29, 1777, a small group of Spanish settlers moved into the area to establish a civilian agricultural town, called El Pueblo de San Jose, to provide food for the missions and presidios.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Their calculations used a feature of the model called a universal scaling function, which describes how physical quantities with dimensions, such as length, change over cosmic time.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026

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