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noun

plural of conglomerate
as in corporations
a group of businesses or enterprises under one control the huge media conglomerate owns TV and radio stations, a cable company, and a movie studio

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verb

present tense third-person singular of conglomerate
1
as in gathers
to come together into one body or place people conglomerated in the downtown streets for an impromptu victory celebration

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as in accumulates
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass over the years the town's discarded junk conglomerated at the bottom of the river

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Recent Examples of conglomerates
Noun
The company can’t outspend the luxury conglomerates crowding the Champagne category in other sports, so FIFA gives it substantial stature as a small, independent maison with a global platform. — Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 The strength in the sector continues to be a shining light, one that is helping high-end maisons and their conglomerates buck a sluggish luxury market as demand for jewelry continues to rise. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 27 July 2026 The agreement is also a sign that massive AI infrastructure buildouts are moving beyond a handful of hyperscalers, with foreign governments and massive conglomerates starting to get involved. — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 25 July 2026 Gerut argues that Amazon and SpaceX are evolving into converging infrastructure conglomerates. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 14 July 2026 Today’s cooling market is already dominated by multinational conglomerates such as Daikin and Samsung, which closely track emerging technologies and are ready to move quickly. — Sabrina Weiss, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026 The publishing conglomerates, on the other hand, are rejoicing. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026 Rogers and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment are the only sports conglomerates that own three or more major sports teams after Fenway Sports Group sold the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 6 July 2026 Brian Roberts spent 24 years building Comcast into one of the largest conglomerates in the US, a juggernaut that owned the media on your screen, the pipelines that delivered it, and the platforms that served it up to you. — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conglomerates
  1. corporations
  2. gathers
  3. accumulates
  4. empires
  5. converges
  6. clusters
  7. meets
  8. assembles
Noun
  • These were large, costly machines owned mainly by governments, universities and major corporations.
    — Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The program is free for participants, funded by a host of local and national foundations, corporations and individual donors.
    — Francesca Pinney, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Definition of corporations
Verb
  • Jack gathers with those who have Parkinson’s to talk through issues and feelings.
    — Nicole Borman, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
  • At night, pretty much everyone gathers around the fire pits and hangs out.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
Definition of gathers
Verb
  • Every piece of content must serve as a culturally relevant entry point that accumulates brand equity, especially when day-to-day audience engagement can be largely random.
    — Stefano Marrone, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Tennis players with wrist pain are often enduring tendonitis, which is inflammation of the tendons, or tenosynovitis, when fluid accumulates in the sheath that protects that tendon.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 July 2026
Definition of accumulates
Noun
  • In the mid-twentieth century, the United States replaced the crumbling empires of Britain and France and committed itself to the global containment of Soviet Communism.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • This document shows what a national decision on slavery in one of the world’s biggest empires at the time could mean for other territories.
    — Kaitlyn Harvey, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of empires
Verb
  • While the sample was a false positive, the FDA’s traceback investigation still converges on Taylor Farms lettuce as a suspect, and people should continue to obey the company’s voluntary recall, the FDA confirmed on X, formerly known as Twitter.
    — Janelle Mella, Charlotte Observer, 21 July 2026
  • The reviewer's eye glides over patterns it has been trained to trust, and the review converges to a ritual approval regardless of risk profile.
    — Kevin Cushnie, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of converges
Verb
  • The historical profile again clusters tightly.
    — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Liquidity cluster Wells Fargo added that most liquidity already clusters around the market open and close, making the idea of stretching trading hours even further counterproductive.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of clusters
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Tony meets the Flagship chef again, this time on less hostile terms.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2026
  • Utah prosecutors are turning up the heat on Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, arguing that the evidence against him easily meets the standard required to send the case to trial.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of meets
Verb
  • The network team follows one pattern, the cloud team follows another, and the SRE team assembles a timeline under pressure from multiple dashboards.
    — Kannan Kothandaraman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • All the while, Myers assembles a possible titan in Philly, and the Warriors are left staring down the pipe at another depressing play-in tournament exit at absolute best.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
Definition of assembles

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