conglomeration

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Recent Examples of conglomeration Few places are a better case study for how AI is impacting the once-reliable tech and financial services industry than Ireland, a country of 5.3 million people that has a high concentration of international conglomerations that dominate the tech, banking, and insurance industries. Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026 In the 1980s, the Motown label finally succumbed to the conglomeration trend in the music industry. Usa Today Network, USA Today, 2 Feb. 2026 Geneva’s current police station is located just off the Fox River at 20 Police Plaza, and is a conglomeration of three buildings built in 1915, 1953 and 1987, according to the city. Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for conglomeration
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Noun
  • The network clearly did not appreciate the misleading aggregation and responded publicly, which only underscored how strongly ESPN objected to the framing.
    Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • The rest get access to the site’s aggregation and redirection for free.
    Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • The psychologist leaned forward and clarified that the man meant snow from the sky, and not a ground-level accumulation in the form of a buff snow guy or a voluptuous snow gal.
    Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • For Denver and communities along the Interstate 25 corridor, snow accumulation chances remain low, though a few flakes could mix in Monday.
    Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • In the aggregate, there is a correlation between earlier picks and better outcomes, but exceptions abound.
    Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Since its launch, Dust has already signed up more than 3,000 organisations; in aggregate, these customers have collectively used the platform to launch more than 300,000 individual agents.
    David Prosser, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • The filmmaker’s research into viral colonies and group organisms revealed a fascinating parallel to human society.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • Fuel and fertilizer needed for the rice crop are just the latest necessities to become unaffordable in Rakhine state, which has been devastated by intense fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA), one of the many rebel groups in the country.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Another photo taken from the moon’s surface appears to show a grouping of three small dots in the sky, with a transcript of communications between Apollo 17 operators revealing an exchange over the unknown objects.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Storms that develop along the front could organize into clusters or lines, increasing the risk for damaging winds and large hail.
    Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 14 May 2026
  • Specifically, the spacetime warped by the MACS J046 clusters magnifies light traveling from LAP1-B toward Earth by roughly 100-fold.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Instead, hormone signals and the glands that produce them are part of a communication system that organises every cell, turning collections of independently functioning cells, tissues and organs into an interconnected human body.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • The interactive museum is finishing up a major expansion, and visitors will soon be able to see even more of its extensive collection up close.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Now, there’s a real mixture of guests hanging around the lobby and breakfast room.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 May 2026
  • Dredge each tomato slice in the flour mixture, then give it a dunk in the buttermilk-egg bath, and finally coat it generously in the cornmeal-breadcrumb mixture.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 19 May 2026

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“Conglomeration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conglomeration. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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