CONGLOMERATION Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

conglomeration

noun

Definition of conglomeration

as in aggregation

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Recent Examples of conglomeration Survival of the mid-major programs depends on breaking out and forming their own conglomeration. — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026 Middlemen forms a trio with Mark McGurl’s The Program Era (2011), which examines the rise of MFAs, and Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction (2023), which follows the effects of publishing’s conglomeration. — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for conglomeration

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Noun

The cloud is the right home for training and aggregation; decisions increasingly belong at the edge, where latency and sovereignty are physics, not preferences.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
In a culture of aggregation and AI summary, the stiffest original thinking still feels as supple as a tone poem, and genuine intellectual ambition akin to a secular miracle.

— Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of aggregation

Noun

The mark is not a single mark at all but an accumulation of marks that coheres into a whole by theatrically—even illusionistically—representing itself as a single brushstroke.

— Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The artist stepped away from performing last year after being diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus, a brain disorder caused by an excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain’s ventricles.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of accumulation

Noun

Castro scored with a volley from inside the box in the 87th minute—enough for the Argentine team to advance with a 2-1 aggregate score.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Track how often your products appear in assistant answers, and track launch-window products apart from the catalog average, because the aggregate hides the cohort at risk.

— Srijith Ravikumar, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of aggregate

Noun

For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world’s most vital waterways.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
In public health, the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stressed the need for the continent to manufacture its own vaccines, and to do so in regional groupings.

— Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of grouping

Noun

Researchers examined internal droplet mechanics using high-performance computing clusters to run complex simulations.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
In another tank, a cluster of tiny frogs not yet ready to be released into the wild had stacked themselves under a heat lamp.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

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