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 complementary forces of print and profit, commerce and calculation, converged in Franklin’s life story as in the pages of Cocker’s Arithmetick.
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James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
The room seemed to hum with the cacophony of love stories converging in one place.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
With the three inflation reports in hand, economists' estimates for the PCE price index for November, excluding the volatile food and energy components, converged around a 0.1% gain.
—Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
Producers: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) –– On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
The room seemed to hum with the cacophony of love stories converging in one place.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
With the three inflation reports in hand, economists' estimates for the PCE price index for November, excluding the volatile food and energy components, converged around a 0.1% gain.
—Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
Producers: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) –– On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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The county Board of Supervisors, which met Tuesday for the first time since fires decimated large swaths of the county, gave the chief executive office a week to sketch out the details.Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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Zoom out: The research on these goals is pretty clear: Firms that set them don't usually meet them.Emily Peck, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Residents gathered around the intersection, frustrated there were no details about when they would be let in.Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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The information gathered was compelling enough for the detectives to secure a series of search warrants through Jackson and Clay counties.Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 10 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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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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Each year, a bevy of defense contractors, immigration authorities, technology ventures and security experts convene at the annual fair to discuss how to strengthen the globe’s political boundaries.Caitlin Chandler, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2025
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Experts from Japan's meteorological agency convened late Monday to analyze whether the recent earthquake in Miyazaki Prefecture might be linked to the Nankai Trough seismic activity.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 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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Fortunately, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft is expected to rendezvous with one of the dark comets, 1998 KY26, in 2031 as part of its extended mission, which could reveal more of the unique characteristics of these not-so-uncommon celestial objects, Taylor said.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
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By day, the stick insect hid in tree hollows, often congregating in significant numbers for shelter, with reports of as many as 60 insects found in a single hollow.Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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At the park, most of our fellow riders congregated by the snack bars or rambled onto a nearby observation deck that jutted into the water.Peggy Orenstein, AFAR Media, 6 Jan. 2025
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