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Recent Examples of consolidation Tsai said hospital closures are being driven by several factors, including a shortage of physicians, consolidation of hospitals, and changes to Medicaid and health insurance policies. — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026 The Adams 12 Five Star Schools Board of Education voted 4-1 Wednesday night to close five elementary schools and one middle school, approving a consolidation plan that will affect nearly 1,600 students. — Tori Mason, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Sources tell Deadline the consolidation of tech stacks is expected to be complete within a year. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026 Between the pandemic, the strikes, the consolidation among the streaming companies, and now the mergers, there’s never been a more difficult time to work in the industry. — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for consolidation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consolidation
Noun
  • The path to closing the merger was often a rocky one and at times seemed likely to derail.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Thursday after their company completed its mega merger earlier this week .
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Herald Square and Times Square are rapidly becoming one district, and a few curbside tourist attractions will only contribute to their unification.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Data, knowledge and AI unification has to be a mandate from leadership, not a project owned by a single team.
    — Yu Fang, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • For larger workloads, batch processing can handle multiple files for tasks such as conversion, merging, compression, OCR, printing, encryption, and adding or removing watermarks.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Prediction markets enable a more complete merging of the financial with the social and linguistic than social media has been able to achieve.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Consolidation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consolidation. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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