as in to meet
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 converge
The world now faces converging threats: China is carrying out the largest peacetime military buildup since Nazi Germany’s, producing warships, combat aircraft, and missiles five to six times as fast as the United States can.
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Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The tracks even converge at one point, leaving scientists to wonder if the creatures that left them interacted during their voyage, reported Reuters.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
Carter was not just a religious man but a profoundly moral one (the two do not always converge).
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
But Republicans, in particular, have converged around this issue in recent years.
—Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The tracks even converge at one point, leaving scientists to wonder if the creatures that left them interacted during their voyage, reported Reuters.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
Carter was not just a religious man but a profoundly moral one (the two do not always converge).
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
But Republicans, in particular, have converged around this issue in recent years.
—Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for converge
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While both countries plan to meet these targets through government borrowing and public sector cuts, there is skepticism in Lithuania about the feasibility of this goal.—
Amanda Castro,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Here, Vogue meets three such makers from across New York’s vibrant food scene—and invites them to share three dishes to ring in the Lunar New Year.—
Ingu Chen,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2025
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The wide-ranging scandal centered on private investigators who illegally hacked into the voicemails of news subjects and gathered information for Murdoch’s tabloids.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
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Because using solar power to heat water is horribly inefficient and conflating it with photovoltaics ignores the difference between gathering thermal energy and the electrochemical processes behind photovoltaics.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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In other countries where RCV is the norm, parties assemble slates of candidates to appeal to different constituencies and knit together a winning coalition.—
Jasmine Gripper,
New York Daily News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Then there’s the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design, a collection of art from around the world—including Spain, Morocco, Central Asia, India, and parts of Southeast Asia—that was assembled by Doris Duke over the course of 60 years.—
Amelia Mularz,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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One way to get a good idea of the recipe for stronger artificial intelligence is to talk to experts convening at today’s conferences and tradeshow events to brainstorm about what the near future is likely to look like.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The trips convene twice a day from the Shoreditch High Street overground station at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.—
Brad Japhe,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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Astronauts launched in an Orion capsule atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket then will rendezvous with the Starship in orbit around the moon for the descent to the surface.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Perseverance would carry the samples to the lander and attach them to the rocket, which would then launch from Mars – the first rocket ever to launch from the surface of another planet – to rendezvous with an Earth Return Orbiter, provided by the ESA.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
7 Jan. 2025
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Only priests could enter the caves; everyone else congregated outside.—
Gina DeCaprio Vercesi,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Jan. 2025
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August and September bring goliath grouper to spawn, with aggregations upward of 60 strong, sometimes congregating above wrecks looking to mate.—
Terry Ward,
Outside Online,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Converge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/converge. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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