as in consolidations
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
the merger of the two companies will create the largest Internet service provider in the country
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Recent Examples of mergers
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.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Scientists have used it to observe over 300 black hole mergers so far.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Years of mergers, cloud migrations and siloed operations have scattered information across countless systems with inconsistent definitions and unclear ownership.
—Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
New observations starting in 2028 may bring the tally of binary mergers to as many as 1,000 by around 2030, if the collaboration keeps its funding.
—Chad Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Justin Dini, who steered communications at Viacom and then continued to lead that corporate function amid multiple mergers, transactions, controversies and rebrandings, is departing the company.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Primus has expressed skepticism about rail mergers and would likely have been a thorn in the side of this rail merger.
—Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Health care consolidation has been booming nationwide for 30 years, with over 2,000 hospital mergers announced since 1998, including 428 from 2018 to 2023.
—Bram Sable-Smith, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
So the female characters do their mergers, acquisitions, and other deal-making in the ballroom and boudoir.
—Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Scientists have used it to observe over 300 black hole mergers so far.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Years of mergers, cloud migrations and siloed operations have scattered information across countless systems with inconsistent definitions and unclear ownership.
—Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
New observations starting in 2028 may bring the tally of binary mergers to as many as 1,000 by around 2030, if the collaboration keeps its funding.
—Chad Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Justin Dini, who steered communications at Viacom and then continued to lead that corporate function amid multiple mergers, transactions, controversies and rebrandings, is departing the company.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Primus has expressed skepticism about rail mergers and would likely have been a thorn in the side of this rail merger.
—Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Health care consolidation has been booming nationwide for 30 years, with over 2,000 hospital mergers announced since 1998, including 428 from 2018 to 2023.
—Bram Sable-Smith, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
So the female characters do their mergers, acquisitions, and other deal-making in the ballroom and boudoir.
—Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mergers
consolidations
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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.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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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
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“Mergers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mergers. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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