as in merger
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
the political unification of several Central European states into a German empire dominated by Prussia
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Recent Examples of unification
The party’s rise has come predominantly in the former communist East Germany, which has never fully caught up economically with the western part of the country since unification.
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Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
Chinese leaders continue to vow unification—by force if necessary.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Earlier attempts at unification had collapsed in rivalries.
—Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
The next stage is to go from being a bridge between cooling channel and chip design to unification of those two processes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Nov. 2025
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Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
Chinese leaders continue to vow unification—by force if necessary.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Earlier attempts at unification had collapsed in rivalries.
—Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
The next stage is to go from being a bridge between cooling channel and chip design to unification of those two processes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unification
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His merger this week of his rocket company SpaceX with his artificial intelligence company xAI could help get them there.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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The SpaceX-xAI merger could be a first step in that direction, and the consolidation a way to move toward steady cash flows and conservative capital to source the immense resources required to fund the AI boom.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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This engine provides strong performance for highway merging, overtaking, and spirited driving, while maintaining smooth and responsive handling.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Jan. 2026
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This is attributed to two branches of the jet stream merging, and the dip in the jet stream elongating more, which allows for stronger rising motion ahead of the system.—
Trey Fulbright,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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However, that growth is threatened by further consolidation.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
5 Feb. 2026
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Instead of an intelligent, reasonable exploration of the historic harms of corporate consolidation, the MAGA Republicans who dominated the panel used their questions to create more content for the right-wing outrage machine.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2026
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The power-plant theory is an iteration of that tradition—a movement away from mystical explanations such as the Curse of the Billy Goat and toward shareable deep dives, investigations, and dot-connecting.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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SpaceX's Starlink constellation, which now totals more than 9,100 operational satellites, provides internet access to areas around the world where other means of connecting are either sparse non existent.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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“Unification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unification. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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