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

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
The image was shared by the celebrity news aggregation Instagram account @deuxmoi, which credited the pop culture outlet @backgrid_usa with finding the photo.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026

Definition of aggregation

Noun

In the past, Washington has attempted to rein in deficit spending and the accumulation of debt.

— Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Most of the region received 1-3 inches in the past 24 hours, but accumulations between 5-7 inches in Lewisville and the western portions of Fort Worth were recorded in the past 24 hours.

— Michael Autovino, CBS News, 13 July 2026

Definition of accumulation

Noun

Students in a select number of professional degree programs can borrow up to $50,000 annually, with a $200,000 lifetime aggregate limit.

— Dan Avery, CNBC, 1 July 2026
Long Weekend largely aggregates and cross-promotes arts events already happening in the area on the first five days of July.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 June 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

Definition of group

Noun

On the eve of the conference, China launched its World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), a new grouping of 29 countries, including Russia, Indonesia and Pakistan, friendly to China and its aims.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.

— STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 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

Definition of cluster

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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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