HUDDLED Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

huddled

verb

past tense of huddle

as in piled

to gather into a closely packed group the puppies huddled together to keep warm

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as in crouched

to lie low with the limbs close to the body huddled under her bed during a game of hide-and-seek

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Recent Examples of huddled 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 The shelter also shared photos that show the dogs, some with their ribcages very prominent, huddled together in kennels. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 24 Aug. 2026 Schottenheimer huddled the team up for a longer than usual postgame discussion because of the fights. — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Every lunch, Becerra and half a dozen friends would around a picnic table, huddled over a deck of cards. — Ben Paviour august 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026 In Sheffield, three workers are huddled around their compute cluster, under an air conditioning unit that is running on full-blast. — Billy Perrigo, Time, 17 Aug. 2026 All the leaders were huddled around a television, watching news about the first attack at the World Trade Center. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra have huddled inside their homes for days on end, unable to leave because of the threat posed by Israeli settlers. — Joseph Krauss, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

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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

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