congregate

If you don’t offer food to wild birds, they will be less likely to congregate in your backyard or garden.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

At the Duke of Wellington, Ryan McDowell, 33, a bartender who lives above the establishment, estimates about 60 customers congregate outside on a busy night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

"They know where the species congregate and where the nursery grounds are."

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Crawlspace LA, which closed in February, similarly started as a space for dancers to congregate and experiment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Thieving peaked during the 1990s famine, when gangs of homeless youngsters—many of them orphans—began to congregate around train stations in cities like Gilju, Hamhung, and Chongjin.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Instead, this 21st Century fanbase congregates more politely on TikTok, Instagram and X, where the hashtag that brings fans, Liam memes, and Bonehead jokes together, is #oasistwt.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024

In the last year, she’s found a welcoming home in the Edinburgh folk music scene that congregates around Captains Bar.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

They form when water vapor congregates around specks of meteor dust floating in the mesosphere and freezes, forming ice crystals.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2022

In many parts of the deepest ocean, life congregates around seeps—vents in the sea floor where gasses leak out from Earth’s innards and fuel microbial growth, attracting communities of deep-sea invertebrates.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 2022

The day's last flock of gray birds congregates above the seedheads of spent wildflowers and launches across the yellow green into a slate-blue sky.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

The county said they congregated around a homeless encampment and that “they were also going on private property and impeding work at the oil field.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Dozens of young people congregated at Nepal's burnt-out parliament building on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

With two hours to go, the eclipse-hunters congregated on the westward-facing slope of Picón, clutching the glasses that would make it safe to look at the sun’s corona.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

On a sunny weekend in early May, hundreds congregated at Raw Farm for its annual Camping With the Cows event.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

He and his groupmates congregated by the tables in front of the Auditorium and took their packaged food.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

Pigeons have been leaving a town's High Street looking dirty and efforts to deter the birds from congregating have failed, a mayor has said.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

So to discourage them from congregating, simply provide less food.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

The day-long convention was over a month in the making, and it was difficult to get day laborers comfortable with congregating in person, Alvarado said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

AIS data showed the "vast majority" of vessels congregating in the East China Sea appeared to be from the eastern province of Zhejiang, where several maritime militia ports are located, said Poling.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

A few other people are jumping down from the landing, congregating behind the first three strangers.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner