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 At first, when guys go down, people are talking about it, huddled up. — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 1 July 2026 In downtown Caracas, hundreds spent the night huddled in parks, parking lots and other open spaces. — CBS News, 26 June 2026 Marsch delivered this rousing speech while still on the pitch, huddled together with his team of history-makers. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 29 June 2026 In downtown Caracas, hundreds of people spent the night huddled around parks, parking lots and other open spaces. — Regina Garcia Cano, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026 My high-octane mutt was leaping around the patio table and barking excitedly while my neighbors huddled together over their steaks. — Deborah Mower, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 Inside at Revel Lounge, half the après crowd sips cocktails in robes and slippers while the other half have logged back on with work and are huddled away in the bar’s many discreet nooks and corners. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026 Right after Canada finished its first knockout match victory in a World Cup, coach Jesse Marsch huddled his players on the grass of a stadium still in pandemonium and spoke from his heart — shouted, actually. — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026 The former hedge fund manager huddled with the Fed’s then-chair, Jerome Powell, and the CEOs of systemically important banks in April to discuss the risks posed by Anthropic’s Mythos. — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 26 June 2026

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Mobile light towers were stationed outside alongside waste management trucks, and large stacks of sandbags were piled up.

— Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
May added 172,000 jobs, with the gains piled into leisure and hospitality, state and local government, and health care, while financial activities slipped and information work kept bleeding year over year.

— Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

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After getting broken to fall behind 2-4 in the third, Djokovic attempted to knock a ball back to the ball boy, who was crouched beside the umpire’s chair.

— Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
The image in question features Grande crouched on the ground while sucking a lollipop and loving a happy black dog.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026

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