congeries

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Noun
  • Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
    Benjamin Nathans September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Data centers are conglomerations of warehouses storing thousands of computer servers.
    Sarah Henry, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Her top consumer picks include bottled water and soft drinks company Nongfu Spring , baijiu brand Wuliangye and luxury goods conglomerate LVMH .
    Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The global beauty conglomerate will now support Chillhouse, known for its SoHo New York salon and press-on nails, through digital and retail channels and growth capital.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Silgranit sinks can be cleaned with a mixture of dish soap and vinegar, which will need to sit for at least an hour if there are any hard water deposits before being rinsed and dried.
    Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Shape mixture into 36 meatballs; place in a shallow baking pan.
    Maddy Bendgen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The push and pull of the front also means a hodgepodge of temperatures, with most places from Pittsburgh to the north seeing highs in the upper 40s and places south of Pittsburgh seeing highs in the low 50s.
    Ron Smiley, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Steinway Street is the home of New York’s Little Egypt and also hosts a hodgepodge of cultures.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Her goal is to start a women’s consciousness-raising group, and her efforts have brought together a motley, inquisitive quintet.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.
    Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • His solo music is a much looser affair, a potpourri of ideas that seem concurrently unintuitive and completely natural.
    Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2025
  • There should also be no kissing under the mistletoe for dog owners as this festive plant is poisonous to dogs, along with poinsettia, holly, ivy, and potpourri.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The lush gardens are spread across about a dozen acres and feature a mix of styles, including a traditional Valencian space with Moorish influences, sprawling greenhouses, and pergolas covered in swaths of roses.
    Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Rice said the discrepancy comes down to a mix of shot selection and a certain intangible.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 9 Jan. 2026
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“Congeries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congeries. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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