as in gathered
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 converged
From across France, itinerant glassblowers, masons and carpenters — hewers, who squared the timbers, joiners, who fit beams together — converged on Paris.
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Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
The Red Sea International Film Festival has officially kicked off its fourth edition as A-listers and international auteurs converged in Jeddah’s old town of Al-Balad in Saudi Arabia’s second-largest city for a decidedly glamorous opening ceremony.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
In early November, municipal officials from Carroll County and throughout Maryland converged upon the Cambridge Chesapeake Bay conference facilities for the Maryland Municipal League’s fall legislative conference.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 30 Nov. 2024
Eventually, these converged into models that could translate between any pair of languages.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Two of the nation's most popular grocers converged here in the last decade.
—Katie Peralta Soloff, Axios, 24 Nov. 2024
Today, adherents still flock to see speakers like Bernstein and Abraham-Hicks on stage and buy their bestselling books, much like 19th-century followers converged in places like Lily Dale, NY, to see the popular spirit mediums of their day.
—Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made By History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
For more than a decade increasingly precise measurements of the Hubble constant based on the local universe, made without reference to the standard model and therefore directly testing its accuracy, have converged around 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec (km/s/Mpc) of space, plus or minus 1.
—Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Reames said after investigators realized the drug ring was supplying fentanyl to the Lummi Nation, the two separate cases converged.
—Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Oct. 2024
Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
The Red Sea International Film Festival has officially kicked off its fourth edition as A-listers and international auteurs converged in Jeddah’s old town of Al-Balad in Saudi Arabia’s second-largest city for a decidedly glamorous opening ceremony.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
In early November, municipal officials from Carroll County and throughout Maryland converged upon the Cambridge Chesapeake Bay conference facilities for the Maryland Municipal League’s fall legislative conference.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 30 Nov. 2024
Eventually, these converged into models that could translate between any pair of languages.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Two of the nation's most popular grocers converged here in the last decade.
—Katie Peralta Soloff, Axios, 24 Nov. 2024
Today, adherents still flock to see speakers like Bernstein and Abraham-Hicks on stage and buy their bestselling books, much like 19th-century followers converged in places like Lily Dale, NY, to see the popular spirit mediums of their day.
—Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made By History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
For more than a decade increasingly precise measurements of the Hubble constant based on the local universe, made without reference to the standard model and therefore directly testing its accuracy, have converged around 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec (km/s/Mpc) of space, plus or minus 1.
—Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Reames said after investigators realized the drug ring was supplying fentanyl to the Lummi Nation, the two separate cases converged.
—Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for converged
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The crown of her head was gathered up in a pouf, pinned at the back with a silver bow for more height and dimension.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
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In one of the screening rooms of the storied British Film Institute (BFI) in Southbank, over a hundred people —mostly women —gathered for a buzzy night of watching shorts.Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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The filmmakers assembled an unprecedented data base of Kahlo’s writings, collected from sources around the globe.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
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They are assembled from parts bought separately or even 3D-printed.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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On Tuesday, Macron convened a meeting of the main parties (but no far left or far-right), the aim being to form a government in the national interest (the trade-off might be a less rigorous budget).Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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In a rare moment of unity, world leaders convened on Saturday to attend the ceremonial reopening of the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in France.Riley Hoffman, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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