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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of congregate.

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Examples

  • While we were inside, they had once again congregated around the stairs.

    Show Don’t Tell « I Had the Write Idea 2008

  • Currently boarding houses, which the city officially calls congregated living spaces, are permitted for dwellings with up to 12 sleeping rooms and 24 occupants if parking and other standards are upheld.

    Kansan.com stories < 2010

  • Currently boarding houses, which the city officially calls congregated living spaces, are permitted for dwellings with up to 12 sleeping rooms and 24 occupants if parking and other standards are upheld.

    Kansan.com stories 2010

  • Among the congregated were The Cato Institute's David Boaz,

    Reason Magazine Nick Gillespie 2010

  • A kind of congregated and institutionalized pluralism, yet with particular sectarian traditions and customs, is going to make less and less sense.

    "Postchristianity" and the Future of Unitarian Universalism in North America (Part II) Steve Caldwell 2008

  • They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine; the eagle, soaring amidst the cloud — they all gathered round me, and bade me be at peace.

    Chapter 10 2010

  • We congregated in the shade beneath the granary floor, my dogs growling at their new companions.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Movement caught my eye, and in the distance beyond the congregated Kristianos, just shy of the tree line, a cabayero was weaving his mount back and forth.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Family members have not addressed reporters who congregated outside Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee.

    George Ryan Asks To Visit Gravely Ill Wife, Lura Lynn AP 2011

  • Egypt's Tipping PointIt was a different story in Egypt, where Facebook served as a forum on which anti-government protesters congregated and organized, with separate pages reaching followers in the hundreds of thousands.

    Social Media - a New Battle Ground for Activists and Governments Alike 2011

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