as in assortment
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
the bedroom community became a vast agglomeration of houses, schools, and small shops
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Recent Examples of agglomeration
Other projects relying heavily on digital design were the 76-story 8 Spruce Street (2010) in Manhattan, whose undulating exterior curtain walls appear 3-D printed, and the cloud-like glass agglomeration of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2006).
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News Desk, Artforum, 11 Dec. 2025
The big bet of California Forever is that by acquiring enough land to build an entire city from scratch, the investors can profit from the economics of agglomeration.
—Chris Elmendorf, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
An appropriate plastic-to-salt ratio is the key factor for preventing metal agglomeration during SAC synthesis.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
How does a singular musical personality emerge from an agglomeration of pitches?
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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News Desk, Artforum, 11 Dec. 2025
The big bet of California Forever is that by acquiring enough land to build an entire city from scratch, the investors can profit from the economics of agglomeration.
—Chris Elmendorf, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
An appropriate plastic-to-salt ratio is the key factor for preventing metal agglomeration during SAC synthesis.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
How does a singular musical personality emerge from an agglomeration of pitches?
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agglomeration
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Each sister influenced a different section of the assortment, which Quay developed to reflect their individual styles while still reading as one family offering.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
14 June 2026
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Looking ahead Beyond the fidgets that make up the majority of their inventory, Victoria Essie Studio still sells an assortment of earrings and homewares like trinket dishes and coasters.—
Jennifer Liu
Valentina Duarte,
CNBC,
14 June 2026
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Guests can also access nearby sister resort Marival Emotions Resort & Suites Riviera Nayarit, which features kids and teens clubs and a variety of family-friendly activities, and food and beverage outlets.—
Chelsea Adams,
USA Today,
20 June 2026
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While at Fortress, Adamolekun visited a variety of Red Lobster restaurants in secret to assess them.—
Teresa Mull,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.—
Madison Chapman,
Outside,
25 Mar. 2026
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Throughout the night, Swift and Kelce danced to tribute performances for and by the musician’s fellow inductees, including a medley of hits performed by John Fogerty and his sons Shane and Tyler.—
Emily Dentinger,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
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The Colombian rapper was there performing a medley of his hits at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City ahead of the opening match between Mexico and South Africa.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
12 June 2026
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Video installations, paintings, collage, photography.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2026
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The photos used to create the collage were taken with a Nikon Z6II camera paired with a Sigma 50 mm lens in the hours following sunset from May 11 through to June 9, as Jupiter and Venus shone close to one another in the constellation Gemini.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
13 June 2026
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While the sculptures are agglomerates and amalgams of ordinary objects, the videos are short vignettes, narrative monologues from the point of view of the timeline’s protagonists: the child, the parent, the lover, the patient, the widow.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
17 Sep. 2025
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The merger between Penguin Random House (itself an agglomerate of two giant publishing corporations) and Simon & Schuster, for example, came as a result of the publishing industry’s ongoing struggles with Amazon.—
Josephine Livingstone,
The New Republic,
22 Dec. 2020
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“Agglomeration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agglomeration. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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