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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In among all these itinerant jobs, Robert meets Gladys (Felicity Jones), a young woman who sings in the church choir and becomes the incandescent center of his life.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Rather than adapting existing algorithms, Metal Minds creates solutions from scratch that reflect the physical and chemical processes occurring during steelmaking as accurately as possible while tailoring these solutions to meet clients’ specific needs.—
Svetlana Khachiyan,
USA TODAY,
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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But as decorators on Monday put the finishing touches on gathering rooms, draping them in the colors of the Colombian flag, in Port-au-Prince, the capital, the judicial process around the president’s murder was moving painstakingly slow.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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All the forces Kinshasa has assembled to protect itself from its own citizens have failed - the UN, the South African army, the white mercenaries etc.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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All will conduct redshift surveys of galaxies to assemble vast 3D maps of galactic distribution.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Whether the session will convene Monday per the governor's request remains unclear.—
Kathryn Varn,
Axios,
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 1 Feb. 2025.
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