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
Earlier attempts at unification had collapsed in rivalries.
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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
Tommaso di Lampedusa’s novel, which looks at the unification of Italy from the perspective of a 20th-century writer, had a modernity that interested me.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
China’s goal is to induce the people of Taiwan to conclude that resistance is futile and thus consent to unification.
—Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
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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
Tommaso di Lampedusa’s novel, which looks at the unification of Italy from the perspective of a 20th-century writer, had a modernity that interested me.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
China’s goal is to induce the people of Taiwan to conclude that resistance is futile and thus consent to unification.
—Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unification
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For instance, red geysers that showed signs of galaxy interactions or past minor mergers contained much more inflowing gas.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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According to The Detroit News, Comerica Park, home of the MLB’s Detroit Tigers, will be renamed as soon as 2027 as a result of the merger.—
Sasha Richie,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Jan. 2026
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This is especially significant to consider early in the year when Saturn and Neptune join forces in Aries, activating a part of your chart that governs intimacy, trust and emotional merging.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Los Rancheros and Poway Kiwanis clubs are in the process of merging, a move that members say will strengthen their organization and increase their abilities to help their communities.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The emerging tariff regime represents the consolidation of a doctrine in which the weaponization of interdependence becomes the central technique of imperial management; the distinction between friends and adversaries matters less than their willingness to be folded into American objectives.—
Pratap Bhanu Mehta,
Time,
15 Jan. 2026
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Hoge didn’t answer questions from The Athletic about the concerns that PSA/Collectors is building a monopoly in the grading space or about Ryan’s demand for FTC action on Collectors’ consolidation of the grading business.—
Larry Holder,
New York Times,
14 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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Thankfully, due to a lot of personal research, the connecting of many dots, and a strong Wi-Fi signal, Teddy has uncovered the truth.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Unification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unification. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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