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as in churches
a body of persons gathered for religious worship
the whole congregation began to sing with great fervor
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as in assemblies
a body of people come together in one place
a congregation of journalists were at the hotel bar, discussing the latest developments
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Recent Examples of congregations
With the last night of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve falling on the same day this year – something that rarely happens – the reverend and rabbi choose to offer a joint service for their congregations.
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Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Chamberlain, the reverend from the South Side of Chicago, tells TIME many of her colleagues in different congregations have been providing physical refuge every day for members of the migrant community who fear prosecution from ICE.
—Connor Greene, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Working in collaboration of the National Trust for Historic Places, the National Fund for Sacred Places each year provides matching grants of between $50,000 and $500,000 to congregations undertaking significant capital campaigns.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Funds from the sale have gone to renovate First Lutheran for three culturally specific congregations that will soon outfit the church with new services targeted to their own communities.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
The church, historically very uniform in its efforts to standardize Latter-day Saints history, art and teachings, is finding that harder to maintain when congregations span dozens of countries, languages, customs and histories.
—Brittany Romanello, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Conscious of this, Mamdani spent many Sundays this summer in church, courting Black congregations around the city.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Attendees left the event with tourniquets or trauma bandages and were encouraged to reach out to Bound Tree Medical to purchase additional supplies for their congregations.
—Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
The organization has announced plans to create thousands of new chapters and cultivating new partnerships with pastors and congregations.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Chamberlain, the reverend from the South Side of Chicago, tells TIME many of her colleagues in different congregations have been providing physical refuge every day for members of the migrant community who fear prosecution from ICE.
—Connor Greene, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Working in collaboration of the National Trust for Historic Places, the National Fund for Sacred Places each year provides matching grants of between $50,000 and $500,000 to congregations undertaking significant capital campaigns.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Funds from the sale have gone to renovate First Lutheran for three culturally specific congregations that will soon outfit the church with new services targeted to their own communities.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
The church, historically very uniform in its efforts to standardize Latter-day Saints history, art and teachings, is finding that harder to maintain when congregations span dozens of countries, languages, customs and histories.
—Brittany Romanello, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Conscious of this, Mamdani spent many Sundays this summer in church, courting Black congregations around the city.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Attendees left the event with tourniquets or trauma bandages and were encouraged to reach out to Bound Tree Medical to purchase additional supplies for their congregations.
—Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
The organization has announced plans to create thousands of new chapters and cultivating new partnerships with pastors and congregations.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congregations
Noun
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Since the explosion, the Warriors have worked with local churches in case any players want to talk to somebody that's not part of the team.—
Jacob Shames,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Oct. 2025
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Some have left their churches for new ones.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Nuclear fuel is loaded into reactors and used until the fuel assemblies become highly radioactive, and must be removed for temporary storage and eventual disposal.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Citizen assemblies or jury-like bodies could help commissioners assess what constitutes reasonable responses to harms.—
John Wihbey,
Time,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Chicago Fire and Portland Timbers secured their places in the playoff field proper with wild-card wins at home Wednesday night, setting up matchups against their conferences’ respective top seeds, the Philadelphia Union and San Diego FC.—
Avi Creditor,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund followed a few years later, financing study trips to Russia and hosting international conferences with journalists, activists, and scholars.—
Tetiana Kotelnykova,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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Non-Orientable Nkansa, 2017, one of his earliest large-scale installations, announced his dedication to monumental assemblages that fixate on negligence and crumbling edifices.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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His artworks, which include paintings, sculptures, mixed-media assemblages, mosaics, photographs, and film, are full of mood and foreboding.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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In the end the meetings produced no substantive breakthrough for either side.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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In those meetings, our would-be bosses told us to make mock phone calls to prospective clients to gauge our ability to convince strangers about the merit of an imaginary product.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the Gorchakov fund works closer to home, sponsoring academic gatherings and Russian-language programs in former Soviet states.—
Tetiana Kotelnykova,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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The government has restricted public gatherings and deployed more than 40,000 security personnel.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Congregations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congregations. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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