clustered

verb

past tense of cluster
1
as in converged
to come together into one body or place the mice clustered together into a small burrow

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2
as in huddled
to gather into a closely packed group all the cottages are clustered on one end of the lake

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Recent Examples of clustered Most of the large developments with urban vibes in Sandy Springs are clustered around the Perimeter rather than the city’s northern edge. — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Nanda Win, head of the Yangon Regional Department of Public Health, said cases were particularly concentrated in downtown Yangon’s Chinatown area, where street food vendors, restaurants and bars are clustered, according to the report. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 The cast are clustered around a table of props and despite her disappointment at the lack of hag wigs, Dale Dickey is flapping a fishing net like a seafaring matador. — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026 Now, after another potentially fatal aortic aneurysm and ambulance ride, the doctors clustered around his hospital bed said the fix involved two more major, risky operations. — Kim Clark, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 The 50-day and 200-day are clustered right below the current price at $234 and $240, which at least gives us a zone to watch on the downside. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026 Groups of older students clustered at tables around him, catching up on each other’s summers. — Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2026 Niche released its 2026 Best Schools in California rankings, with top public elementary, middle and high schools clustered in the Bay Area, San Diego and Los Angeles. — Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2026 The San Fernando Valley is the epicenter of California’s artificial-stone-cutting industry, where dozens of shops are clustered. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clustered
  1. converged
  2. huddled
  3. gathered
  4. crowded
  5. assembled
  6. piled
  7. met
  8. rendezvoused
Verb
  • Debit and credit card spending also converged across income groups last month, according to the think tank.
    — Sharon Epperson,Stephanie Dhue, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
  • People converged around the tow truck, but rapid responders from PUNO and the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois stood between protesters and the truck and pleaded with people to let the tow truck through.
    — Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of converged
Verb
  • Welding classes used to have students huddled behind a teacher who demonstrated a technique, Estrada said.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • During a brief courtroom break to address an audio issue, Lutnick huddled with DOJ lawyers.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of huddled
Verb
  • Community members gathered for the town hall Monday night to hear from former employees, community leaders and the president and CEO of Insight, who spoke about his hopes for the now-shuttered West Suburban and Weiss Memorial hospitals.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • During the surge, the most important of these turned out to be those founded during the upheaval that followed George Floyd’s murder, when residents gathered in nearby parks to organize block associations led by captains.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of gathered
Verb
  • The small table was crowded with bottles of sparkling San Pellegrino and fancy saucières filled with every sauce and condiment on offer.
    — Jonny Hallam, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Fewer screens Cineplexes are crowded partly because the pandemic left the industry with fewer of them.
    — Bob Mondello, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of crowded
Verb
  • Engineers have assembled a prototype air-cooling rig to test the passive safety systems.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • High prices, closed factories Anderson said from January to July this year, there were about 689,000 vehicles assembled in Canada.
    — Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of assembled
Verb
  • But after Annapurna moved from financing its movies to distributing them in 2017, costs rose, flops piled up, and Megan Ellison scaled back her ambitions.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Her platinum blonde hair was piled high atop her head, while her makeup consisted of blue eyeshadow and a pale pink lip.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of piled
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  • The two officials met on the sidelines of a Group of 20 finance leaders' gathering in Asheville, North Carolina.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Driscoll is an Iraq war veteran, tech investor and former adviser to Vance, whom Driscoll met at Yale Law School.
    — Ben Finley, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of met
Verb
  • According to Treasury, fishing vessels secretly rendezvoused at sea with smaller go-fast boats carrying cocaine north through the eastern Pacific.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu four years later.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 28 June 2026
Definition of rendezvoused

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“Clustered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clustered. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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