agglutinate

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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. 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
Verb
  • While some neighborhoods were good to deliver to, others weren’t, and when people took the good addresses, the rest of us were lumped with the bad ones.
    Jack Hargreaves, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
  • They were infames lumped in with gladiators and prostitutes at the very bottom of the social ladder.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On impact, the particles clump together, blocking the flow of liquids and ions.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Studies have shown that both erythritol and xylitol may cause blood platelets to more easily clump — creating clots that can break off and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or to the brain, damaging blood vessels or triggering a stroke.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Over the off-season, the Dodgers accumulated a murders’ row of players, at times seemingly adding pitchers just for the heck of it.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The Kim brothers also allegedly accumulated substantial tax liabilities by failing to pay taxes assessed.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Media conglomerates Disney and Paramount have also made strategic financial decisions to win more favorable treatment from Trump and his administration.
    Allan Smith, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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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“Agglutinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agglutinate. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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