congregating

verb

Definition of congregatingnext
present participle of congregate
1
as in collecting
to bring together in one body or place both captains congregated their team members for some pregame strategizing

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2
as in gathering
to come together into one body or place pilgrims have been congregating in the town's historic square for centuries

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  1. assembling
  2. converging
  3. convening
  4. accumulating
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  • Groove Botanicals plans to focus on assembling a portfolio of early-stage EV Battery Technologies and is seeking grants and corporate partners to commercialize these technologies.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • All new writers, a new showrunner and of course, at some point assembling a cast, which did not manifest before all this.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of assembling
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  • First, Russian and Chinese foreign policy tactics are converging in new and synergistic ways.
    Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Russian and Chinese foreign policy tactics are converging in new and synergistic ways.
    Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2018
Definition of converging
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  • In 2022, Biden prevented a rail workers strike by convening a Presidential Emergency Board under the Railway Labor Act of 1926, and Congress used its authority to impose an agreement on the two sides.
    Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The Biden administration should signal early support for the arrangement by convening defense ministers to follow up on the foreign ministers’ meeting this past November.
    Michael J. Green, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2021
Definition of convening
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  • Hepatic encephalopathy is confusion and behavioral changes caused by toxins accumulating in the brain.
    Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
  • In turn, more people are having to rely on credit cards to cover their daily expenses, leading to a cycle of accumulating debt.
    Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of accumulating
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