consortia

noun

variants also consortiums
plural of consortium
as in organizations
a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest a consortium for the prevention of animal cruelty

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Recent Examples of consortia Apart from ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy, two other consortiums hold exploration licenses in the Cypriot EEZ. — ABC News, 30 June 2026 Meanwhile, consortiums in crypto between large corporate players aren’t novel. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 30 June 2026 Several other institutions are coming together with Biohub, including the Allen Institute, Arc Institute, Broad Institute, and Wellcome Sanger Institute—as well as consortia including the Human Cell Atlas and the Human Protein Atlas to coordinate a larger-scale effort. — Priscilla Chan, Time, 30 Apr. 2026 Most modern sports teams are purchased by consortiums, and every league has its own rules about how exactly those groups can come together. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 27 Mar. 2026 State-level surveillance consortiums. — Robert B. Shpiner, STAT, 13 Feb. 2026 Industry consortia should define standards for APIs, reserve attestations and exception handling, minimizing integration friction. — Karthik Sankara Narayanan, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026 There are consortia that protect regional products like Parmigiano Reggiano, organizations that preserve the country’s artistic and architectural treasures, and even official designations for the country’s most beautiful villages. — Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 21 Jan. 2026 Under the Commission’s current plan, only one interceptor project would receive EU funding in the future, leaving the two consortia with limited options. — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consortia
  1. organizations
  2. institutions
  3. associations
  4. institutes
  5. societies
  6. brotherhoods
  7. chambers
Noun
  • Funding challenges have forced the closure of re-entry homes like the one at Charlotte’s McLeod Center and the shuttering of re-entry organizations like Redirection-NC as well as local reentry councils across the state.
    — Amber Gaudet July 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
  • Gartner reported in 2026 that organizations with successful AI initiatives invest up to four times more in data quality, governance, AI-ready people and change management than organizations reporting poor outcomes.
    — Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of organizations
Noun
  • Some real-estate experts contend, however, that institutions shelling out millions to underwrite a property are already dead set on recouping their investments.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
  • The city also is constrained in taxing because about 1,500 properties — including state offices, hospitals and religious institutions — are exempt from paying local property taxes.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
Definition of institutions
Noun
  • Along with attending matches, Infantino’s itinerary included stops in New York for an interview on Fox & Friends and in Miami for a FIFA summit attended by representatives from the organization’s 211 member associations.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
  • The associations remained even after accounting for individual characteristics, suggesting community-level conditions may independently shape Alzheimer’s risk.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
Definition of associations
Noun
  • Founded in 2021, Helical Fusion aims to commercialize fusion research conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), one of Japan’s leading public research institutes.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 7 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, Beijing widens Japan export curbs, targeting drone makers, nuclear firms and defense institutes.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of institutes
Noun
  • Linguistic diversity is not a good acquired at no expense to the societies that have chosen it (or been forced to choose it) over homogeneity.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • Storms smash into cities, disease shuts down whole societies, and millions of humans migrate across the globe.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of societies
Noun
  • The most recognizable are Semana Santa, or Holy Week, processions during the final week of Lent where brotherhoods and robed penitents parade ornate statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary through cities, towns and villages alongside marching bands.
    — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
  • The most recognizable are Holy Week processions during the final week of Lent where brotherhoods and robed penitents parade ornate statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary through cities, towns and villages alongside marching bands.
    — Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
Definition of brotherhoods
Noun
  • The legislation includes nearly 60 standalone bills from the House, the Senate, or both chambers, combined into one massive package.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2026
  • His fixation on the bill — which lacks enough GOP support in the Senate — has undermined unrelated Republican priorities in both chambers and nearly paralyzed legislative business in the House.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 13 July 2026
Definition of chambers

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