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as in merger
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
the union of East Germany and West Germany that became possible after the fall of communism
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as in confederacy
an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection
in 1949 the U.S. and Canada joined their European allies in a transatlantic union to defend Western Europe from aggression by the Soviet Union
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as in association
the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)
the movie studio is producing the blockbuster in union with another studio because of the tremendous cost involved
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Recent Examples of union
The fire union is fighting a Levine Cava proposal to fully shift the county’s $28 million budget for rescue helicopters from the countywide property tax to the Fire Rescue property tax, which is not paid by residents in Miami and the four other municipalities with their own fire departments.
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 30 Aug. 2025
But the 1980s was the beginning of union membership declining across the country.
—Alissa Quart, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
Two years after the law passed, the union helped elect one of their own, Mayor Johnson, into the city’s top office.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Examples include state disability insurance taxes withheld, union dues, health insurance premiums deducted, and nontaxable income.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 30 Aug. 2025
But the 1980s was the beginning of union membership declining across the country.
—Alissa Quart, Time, 30 Aug. 2025
Two years after the law passed, the union helped elect one of their own, Mayor Johnson, into the city’s top office.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Examples include state disability insurance taxes withheld, union dues, health insurance premiums deducted, and nontaxable income.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for union
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Union Pacific is calling this merger the nation’s first truly transcontinental railroad, although for practical purposes, the first complete rail connection was completed 156 years ago.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The move would mark an important milestone for Nvidia -backed Cohesity, which shelved IPO plans in 2021 to first execute a complex merger with its rival Veritas’ data protection unit, according to Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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In the sixteenth century, the nomadic, reindeer-herding Sámi people of what’s now northern Sweden and Finland and the Shawnee of the Ohio Valley in North America, who lived in farming villages organized as a confederacy, didn’t necessarily have much in common.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Aug. 2025
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Americans are divided on that topic, with 55% saying historical figures that supported the confederacy and racial segregation should not be memorialized in a June 2024 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Nostalgia can be defined as a sentimental yearning for the past, typically for a period or place with positive associations.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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As in several neighboring cities in Jackson County, trash services in Lee’s Summit are currently privatized, with individual people, businesses and homeowners’ associations finding their own providers.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
30 Aug. 2025
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Businesses need data unification solutions that transform poor-quality data from disparate sources into secure, trusted and accessible information.—
Manish Sood,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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North Korea in recent years has also changed its policy toward the South, dismissing the idea of peaceful unification and called Seoul a main enemy.—
Joyce Lee,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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Macron could alternatively call a snap election, which could result in another hung parliament or in victory for either the far-right National Rally or a left-wing coalition.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
28 Aug. 2025
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Johnson won election in 2023 with a coalition of Black voters and white liberals, but his brand of leftist politics has struggled with that first base after a sudden crisis of asylum-seekers landed on his desk his first day in office.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
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Lauber's Infinitas Capital and Angermayer's Apeiron Investment Group are committing capital to the investing partnership alongside Elevat3 Capital , Apeiron's venture capital arm backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and family office Thiel Capital.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
28 Aug. 2025
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All that changed when Vanderbilt and Metro Nashville Public Schools announced a new partnership and full-ride scholarship known as Nashville Vanderbilt Scholars.—
The Tennessean,
The Tennessean,
28 Aug. 2025
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If zipper merging is legal in your state, then it should be used during times of heavy, slow-moving traffic.—
Ahmed Jawadi,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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The merging and jiggling sends ripples called gravitational waves cascading outward through the fabric of the universe and to detectors here on Earth.—
Matt von Hippel,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Aug. 2025
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When evaluating partnerships—whether through M&A or strategic alliances—cultural fit should always be part of the conversation.—
Mike Vietri,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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The alliance is intimately involved in building and testing weapons with Ukraine, training its army, and supplying it with intelligence and arms, including ones that can strike deep inside Russian territory.—
Alexander Gabuev,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Union.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/union. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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