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come together in English:

1. gather gather


I'd like you to help me gather some firewood.
The berries were ripening almost as fast as we could gather them.
gather materials
Institutional and assembly: Serving a place where many people gather.
The neighborhood has been gentrified. Now it's teeming with pretend hipsters slurping skinny lattes at Starbucks. They gather round coffee and free Wi-Fi like bees round a honeypot.
if people gather, or if someone gathers them, they come together in one place to see or do something
The children from the village would often gather up on top of the hill and from there watched the trucks and automobiles going back and forth to the city.
Spirits are to be found all over the world. This school was built upon the site of a shrine and thus there is a particular tendency for them to gather.
And every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest.
Ladies and gentlemen, gather around. All our friends gathered close around us
Hoarders continually gather objects
Can you all gather round? I've got something to tell you. The kids were gathered together in one room.
when market reasoning and market thinking have gathered force and gained prestige
and from what I can gather, it was rather a raucous affair.
Giving and receiving advice is a way to gather knowledge

2. encounter encounter


I had a short encounter with a famous film star at the airport. I encountered my old friend at the party.
encounter difficulty
You must keep the disc concealed from anyone we may encounter.
You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked "what do you do?"
If you encounter problems or difficulties, you experience them(2) If you encounter someone, you meet them, usually unexpectedly(3)
My impression of this government is that they need a more forceful economic policy, otherwise they'll encounter large problems in the future.
Treasure every encounter with others because you never know if you'll meet a person just once in your lifetime.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage — he won't encounter many rivals.
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Cities are the place where we're most likely to encounter diversity and to mix with other people.
His first encounter with the law came in 1992, when he was 15. The porous wick is often encountered in conventional heat pipes.
Our casual lakeside encounters evolved into more regular meetings
get exposed to (in this context) meet or encounter
I love you more than any other woman I've ever encountered.
Insurance makes us remember that the world we live in isn't completely safe; we might fall ill, face danger or encounter the unexpected.

3. agree agree


We agree.
I agree on an emotional level, but on the pragmatic level I disagree.
If you agree to buy 3,000 of them, we'll give you a 3 percent discount.
I was unwilling to agree to the proposal, but it seemed that I had no choice.
I agree with the ban in principle, but in practice it will be extremely difficult.
By signing a contract, you agree to certain terms and conditions.
Britain was in no hurry to agree on a peace treaty.
When we hear of a divorce we assume that it was caused by the inability of those two people to agree upon fundamentals.
While they don't agree, they continue to be friends.
It is impossible, you know, to make him agree.
Therefore, for any text you hold the copyright to, by submitting it, you agree to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0 (fr).
Most students agree with the proposal, and made a list of arguments in favour of it.
He nodded as much as to say, I agree.
Certainly if someone is _that_ beautiful you'd draw back from approaching her. "Thought you'd agree."
If you would agree to answer some of the questions below, I would be extremely grateful.

4. converged converged



English word "come together"(converged) occurs in sets:

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