CONGLOMERATION Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

conglomeration

noun

Definition of conglomeration

as in aggregation

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Recent Examples of conglomeration Throughout the festival, experts have spoken about the effect of conglomeration and amalgamation of power by a few uber-wealthy figureheads, and how grassroots movements in journalism can inspire documentarians to survive in the near future. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 20 Mar. 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. — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 28 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

Coronado is about to become the newest member of San Diego Community Power, the community choice aggregation, or CCA, program that offers an alternative to San Diego Gas & Electric for electricity sources.

— Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2026
Along these beaches, sharks form loose aggregations in the summer and fall months, when ocean temperatures are warm and seas are calm.

— Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of aggregation

Noun

Widespread, measurable rainfall is expected, with accumulations of 1 inch or less in most areas.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
While any single penalty may not seem like that much, their accumulation across the justice process can be substantial.

— Brian Lawton, The Conversation, 22 July 2026

Definition of accumulation

Noun

This show was more popular with fans than critics in Season 1 by a wide margin, but there aren’t enough reviews from either group to get an aggregate yet for Season 2.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
The RealClear Polling aggregate has the party more than 17 points underwater in favorability.

— Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2026

Definition of aggregate

Noun

In the underwater video, an adult female orca is seen holding onto a dead sharp-tail sunfish that the group had previously killed.

— Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Last December, Berman outdid himself, landing $867 million in financing from a group of lenders that include Apollo Global and JPMorgan Chase to convert a 1960s-era office building at 111 Wall Street.

— Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026

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Noun

In November 2017 India, Australia, Japan, and the United States revived the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or the Quad, an informal strategic grouping widely viewed as a response to China’s expanding footprint in the Indo-Pacific region.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
The most successful arrangements typically share a common thread, whether that’s a similar material, finish, color palette, or overall mood, while still incorporating enough variation to keep the grouping feeling relaxed and layered.

— Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2026

Definition of grouping

Noun

The largest cluster was worked the way foodborne outbreaks have been for decades, by interviewing the sick until a common thread appeared.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
That agentic swarm exploited a flaw in Hugging Face’s data-processing pipeline to gain the ability to run code as a processing worker, eventually escalating to high-level access to the company’s cloud and server clusters.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 22 July 2026

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Getty Images Overseas in Europe, the collection of ethnic data is strictly prohibited or seen as taboo.

— Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Consistent with those findings, the HEAA would increase demographic data collection across federal health programs and create a task force to study bias in artificial intelligence used in healthcare.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026

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