conglomerating

verb

present participle of conglomerate
1
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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2
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. — Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conglomerating
  1. gathering
  2. accumulating
  3. converging
  4. collecting
  5. assembling
  6. meeting
  7. clustering
  8. congregating
Verb
  • Managers spend more time gathering information than coaching their teams.
    — Kylie Fuentes, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The property also has a movie theater, a resort-style pool area, and multiple spaces for gathering both indoors and out.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of gathering
Verb
  • The point is to allow young people to enter the workforce more quickly, avoid unnecessary costs, and continue accumulating skills over time.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Warmer temperatures associated with El Niño can mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow at lower elevations, while colder, higher elevations remain more likely to see accumulating snow.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of accumulating
Verb
  • These climate-health challenges are converging with broader demographic and social trends.
    — Mitch New, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Wynwood is becoming a place where technology, finance, luxury housing and higher education are converging.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of converging
Verb
  • South Lyon Police Chief Bonnie Unruh says the two Flock cameras in the city are no longer collecting data.
    — Jordan Burrows, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The musician has been collecting and restoring vintage bikes for decades.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of collecting
Verb
  • Teams are moving past small-scale lab tests and assembling the industrial supply chain needed to build actual power stations.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Don and Mera Rubell had spent decades assembling one of the world’s most important private collections of contemporary art.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of assembling
Verb
  • Acceptance of the former is advancing, with more than 50 countries meeting in Colombia this year to grapple with how exactly to do it.
    — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
  • But Kye is insecure about the scars on his chest and on his head, so the girl agrees to blindfold herself with a silk scarf before meeting him.
    — S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of meeting
Verb
  • But clustering the high-end systems is an investment only a subset of users will ever need to make.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Keeping the molecules fixed within the plastic prevents them from clustering as easily.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of clustering
Verb
  • This year, though, the river’s dry sections could prevent returning salmon from getting far, and might leave them congregating at its mouth or in its lower reaches, which can increase the risks of a disease outbreak.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Just two years later, in 1928, The New York Times reported that thousands of ex-Neapolitans were congregating for a festival that had already extended from one day to a full week.
    — Clare Whitton, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of congregating

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“Conglomerating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conglomerating. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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