as in gathering
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 converging
The Disney subsidiary behind Doomsday is called For All Time Productions UK in a nod to its theme of converging timelines.
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Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
That idea is at the center of Continuous Detection, Continuous Response (CDCR), a new framework implemented through Mate Security’s platform for converging those functions into a single continuous cycle.
—K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Most are attempting to understand where audiences, capital, technology, and cultural influence are converging next.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Bichette dropped a flare into shallow center field out of the reach of converging defenders, allowing Torrens to score the tying run, and Benge to go to first.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
Initiatives at both the federal and state levels are converging.
—Krisztian Elcsics, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
As Euphoria’s third season enters its back half, our ensemble’s plotlines are, at long last, converging.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 11 May 2026
That’s the converging picture across Wall Street research and Main Street sentiment.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
Their collision at the Austrian GP, an inevitable result of their converging performance, was disappointing.
—Luke Smith, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
That idea is at the center of Continuous Detection, Continuous Response (CDCR), a new framework implemented through Mate Security’s platform for converging those functions into a single continuous cycle.
—K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Most are attempting to understand where audiences, capital, technology, and cultural influence are converging next.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Bichette dropped a flare into shallow center field out of the reach of converging defenders, allowing Torrens to score the tying run, and Benge to go to first.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
Initiatives at both the federal and state levels are converging.
—Krisztian Elcsics, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
As Euphoria’s third season enters its back half, our ensemble’s plotlines are, at long last, converging.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 11 May 2026
That’s the converging picture across Wall Street research and Main Street sentiment.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026
Their collision at the Austrian GP, an inevitable result of their converging performance, was disappointing.
—Luke Smith, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for converging
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The robot training center's primary focus will be on gathering all the data possible, across a diverse collection of robots, in an effort to be able to fine-tune methods to teach new bots old tricks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 May 2026
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So, the political arm of the Peninsula Open Space Trust, which helps acquire land that the open space authority often manages, qualified the measure for the ballot through an initiative signature-gathering drive.—
Mercury News Editorial,
Mercury News,
23 May 2026
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As the podcast industry debates the definition of a podcast and wades through unclear ad measurement tools, a secret industrywide taskforce has been meeting to combat the problem.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2026
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Before the breach, 23andMe touted its security practices as meeting the highest industry standards.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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The ingredients became rather expensive, not to mention that baking, assembling, decorating and transporting a carrot wedding cake was no small feat.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
23 May 2026
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But a shopping agent assembling an outfit, or a financial model deciding which risk is worth flagging and which is just chatter, operates in territory where what is good splinters into many defensible answers.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Some want their philanthropy to play a leadership role by convening others, influencing the field, or funding innovative work.—
Kris Putnam-Walkerly,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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And outside the university, the cycling community is strong, convening at spots such as the Davis Bike Collective and Davis Bike Club.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2026
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The new study suggests that the Milky Way merging with the Loki galaxy was almost on the scale of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus event.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
23 May 2026
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This originally emerged , in part, through the visual languages circulating across Latin America and small pockets on the internet, the aesthetic speaks to how women have long been merging disparate style worlds into something entirely new.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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All attendees will go through security screening, and congregating in hallways will not be allowed.—
Steven Rosenbaum,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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The scenes of thousands of fans congregating to welcome the team bus on arrival are emblematic of the transformation.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
19 May 2026
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