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Recent Examples of agglutinate
There is also a peculiar effect whereby different books read by the same narrator can seem to agglutinate into a single mongrel super-book.
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Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
The blood sample will visibly clump or agglutinate due to the effects of the existing antibodies on the new bacteria, and the patient is thus diagnosed with R. proawazekii.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
The blood sample will visibly clump or agglutinate due to the effects of the existing antibodies on the new bacteria, and the patient is thus diagnosed with R. proawazekii.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agglutinate
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This season could very well determine whether Etienne enters free agency as a marquee target or a back who gets lumped in with the pool of veterans who cycle through one-year deals.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
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Some investigators lumped the Tully monster in with segmented worms, others with mollusks, and still others with arthropods, which covers everything from lobsters to insects to millipedes.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
8 July 2025
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Three skinny fries clumped together and dunked into your favorite condiment will always hit.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 July 2025
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Feel free to layer this buildable formula for a more dramatic finish without clumping or webbing in the process.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
26 June 2025
Verb
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The Netscape engineer would surf successive technology waves, accumulating equity stakes that India couldn't match.—
Gabriel Snyder,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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During his Michigan career, Wilson often feasted on slants and other in-breaking routes, while also accumulating a lot of yards after the catch.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
22 July 2025
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The vision of the commission is clear in a diagram for the War Department that sought to streamline the bureaucracy, conglomerating the existing 18 divisions into eight.—
Laura Ellyn Smith,
The Conversation,
9 May 2025
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Lev noted that, in the 1960s, conglomerated companies were trending in strategy circles because of economies of scale and the risk mitigation of being in multiple industries, where if one area is struggling due to external factors, the company's risk is spread out across a few different sectors.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Agglutinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agglutinate. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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