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as in gathering
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 accumulating
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 conglomerating
The quickly conglomerating media industry led Henson to consider corporate partnerships to assist with his goal of further expanding the Muppet media universe.
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Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conglomerating
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Your 2nd House of Assets draws attention as the unconscious Moon conjoins information-gathering Mercury there, revealing habits that are shaping your financial journey.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Mar. 2026
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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction famously took on the traditional ideas of the hero’s journey and destruction in storytelling, arguing that the earliest human tool was not a weapon, but a container, such as a bag, a basket, or even a net, designed for gathering and storing food.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Mar. 2026
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At this point in a typical year, as the seasons officially turn from winter to spring, snowpack would still be accumulating across the Mountain West.—
Mira Rojanasakul,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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Powell understands that the accumulation of these moments is itself a form of knowledge, and that Emily was accumulating it in real time while writing one of the strangest novels in the English language.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Mar. 2026
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Multiple forces are converging in ways that defy easy fixes — and the old playbook of buying the dip is far from guaranteed to work.—
Denitsa Tsekova,
Bloomberg,
10 Mar. 2026
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The confirmation of both species’ survival came from multiple converging lines of evidence.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2026
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By continuously collecting and processing electromagnetic data, the system generated a detailed understanding of the surrounding signal environment.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2026
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Putting aside the frustration for Delroy Lindo, who would’ve looked so great collecting an award with his polka-dot ascot, Sean Penn’s decision to skip the Oscars gave the Best Supporting Actor award a real whomp-whomp feeling.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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The Athletics are assembling an interesting young core but don’t look ready for prime time yet, and the Los Angeles Angels look destined for another rough year.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
21 Mar. 2026
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In charge is Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller), a stern German tactician who is tasked with assembling a global coalition to handle the astrophage problem.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
21 Mar. 2026
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In October 2025, the trust team organized its first pop-up newsroom, with a few dozen journalists rotating through a temporary workspace in South Dallas, meeting with 70 community residents over three days.—
Lilly Kersh,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Mar. 2026
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In 2019, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese leader in over 40 years to visit Tehran, meeting the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in an effort to mediate between Washington and Tehran.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
19 Mar. 2026
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Texas has several major metro regions that have benefited from that clustering effect, including Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin.—
Wilborn P. Nobles III,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Mar. 2026
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This prevents them from clustering together, creating a layer of cream that used to rise to the top of the bottle and had to be scooped off before drinking (or was seen as a treat by some).—
Paul Edward Parker,
The Providence Journal,
5 Mar. 2026
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Vandals quickly stripped it bare, from its electrical wiring to its rooftop mechanicals, and loiterers congregating outside its doors and in its parking lot sometimes numbered in the dozens during a difficult post-pandemic downturn for the Midway.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
18 Mar. 2026
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Other affinity groups, including Trans in Classics and CripAntiquity, started congregating around the same time.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Conglomerating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conglomerating. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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