as in mergers
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
the consolidation of several intelligence agencies into one super agency
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Recent Examples of consolidations
At the University of Chicago (#13), almost all of the arts and humanities departments and some social science departments are pausing new PhD program admissions for 2026-2027, as the school studies consolidations and cost-savings.
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Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Several other key markets, including Spain, Poland, Belgium, and Austria, also recorded consolidations of varying degrees in both volume and value.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Several other key markets, including Spain, Poland, Belgium, and Austria, also recorded consolidations of varying degrees in both volume and value.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consolidations
mergers
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With masses equivalent to millions or even billions of suns, supermassive black holes are too massive to have been born from dying stars; instead, it is theorized that they are created when smaller black holes collide and merge, and a chain of progressively larger and larger mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Scientists have used it to observe over 300 black hole mergers so far.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Consolidations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consolidations. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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