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as in to gather
to bring together in one body or place
both captains congregated their team members for some pregame strategizing
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as in to converge
to come together into one body or place
pilgrims have been congregating in the town's historic square for centuries
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Recent Examples of congregate
What’s the best thing about that opportunity to congregate with these other artists?
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
Volunteers and staff will be posted up at specific viewing stations — places where cranes tend to congregate — with scopes for guests to use.
—Jamie Siebrase, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025
This is sort of a spray-and-pray approach across several online communities where alumni of a handful of companies tend to congregate and tend to spend time.
—Katie Drummond, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2025
The 2025 awards season may still be a few weeks from its final hurrah, but it’s already had an impact on the film industry as buyers and sellers prepare to congregate once more at the European Film Market in Berlin.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
Volunteers and staff will be posted up at specific viewing stations — places where cranes tend to congregate — with scopes for guests to use.
—Jamie Siebrase, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025
This is sort of a spray-and-pray approach across several online communities where alumni of a handful of companies tend to congregate and tend to spend time.
—Katie Drummond, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2025
The 2025 awards season may still be a few weeks from its final hurrah, but it’s already had an impact on the film industry as buyers and sellers prepare to congregate once more at the European Film Market in Berlin.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregate
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On Wednesday evening, a small group of parents, students and CTU organizers gathered outside Rufino Tamayo Elementary in Gage Park holding signs and plastic candles to protest the potential closing of the school.—
Ikram Mohamed,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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About 100 technologists, brand managers and executives gathered to hear passionate talk about how artificial intelligence will affect consumer trends.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2025
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As Emily continues to investigate the Zhang siblings’ work, their lives converge to devastating effect in the Zhang family dim sum restaurant.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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Artists, tastemakers and executives converged in Kingston, Jamaica February 19 through 23, 2025 for the third annual Island Music Conference (IMC).—
Janeé Bolden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Mar. 2025
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The prompts, the answers, and the logical reasoning traces are captured or collected into a file or database.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Social Security payments are financed from a dedicated payroll tax collected from workers.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
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Avs looking forward Colorado Avalanche GM Chris MacFarland met with local media earlier this week and hinted captain Gabriel Landeskog likely wasn’t coming back before the end of the regular season.—
Pierre LeBrun,
The Athletic,
5 Mar. 2025
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Unlike a year ago in February, when the teams met in uptown, Seth Curry wasn’t relegated to joining father Dell Curry as a guest analyst in the FanDuel Sports Southeast booth because of an injury.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Mar. 2025
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Eventually, Nick Cannon, Fredro Starr, and the crew assembled their top five in order.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
6 Mar. 2025
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Many of the pieces were assembled by the designer himself.—
Alberto Calabrese,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2025
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All seven convened in Lausanne, Switzerland at the end of January to make a 15-minute pitch directly to the voting membership, then had 10 minutes to expand on their platforms and answer questions from reporters.—
Blythe Lawrence,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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The students applied for a nomination from Peters’ office in the fall and were selected after an interview process with the Service Academy Nominations Board that Peters’ office convened.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2025
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TikTok Users Reacts Annie's efforts with Baloo quickly touched people's hearts and as of Wednesday, the TikTok video amassed over 1.7 million views, 57,300 likes and 1,221 comments.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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Over recent weeks in this space, pitch grades have been assigned to each qualifying pitch within the arsenal of each starter who amassed 135 or more innings in 2024.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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SpaceX has yet to conduct a mission to orbit or test out how Starship will rendezvous with another vehicle for refueling in space, a maneuver the company must perfect to supply the vehicle with enough fuel to get to the moon.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
15 Jan. 2025
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That night, when Noor rendezvoused with Peter, Catherine Rose in their secret meeting place, Sami called with the bad news, before boarding a plane with the mother.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Congregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congregate. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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