agglutinate

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Recent Examples of agglutinate There is also a peculiar effect whereby different books read by the same narrator can seem to agglutinate into a single mongrel super-book. Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023 The blood sample will visibly clump or agglutinate due to the effects of the existing antibodies on the new bacteria, and the patient is thus diagnosed with R. proawazekii. Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agglutinate
Verb
  • Even if they are increasingly getting lumped together by both the industry and consumers, their businesses are incredibly different, according to a dozen insiders working in the global independent market that talked to The Hollywood Reporter.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • She is frustrated the administration is lumping him in with others who perhaps entered the country without legal status and committed multiple crimes.
    Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 1 June 2025
Verb
  • The wet clippings clump together on the mower blades and in the lawn.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 June 2025
  • Long before stars even formed, dark matter clumped up and drew regular matter together with its gravity, providing the invisible scaffolding upon which stars and galaxies eventually grew.
    Stephen Clark – Jun 6, ArsTechnica, 6 June 2025
Verb
  • The toxins accumulate in filter-feeding fish, and then poison larger mammals who gobble up the fish in mass quantities.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • Here’s my list of all seven major pathways getting us from contemporary AI to the treasured AGI: (1) Linear path (slow-and-steady): This AGI path captures the gradualist view, whereby AI advancement accumulates a step at a time via scaling, engineering, and iteration, ultimately arriving at AGI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • The vision of the commission is clear in a diagram for the War Department that sought to streamline the bureaucracy, conglomerating the existing 18 divisions into eight.
    Laura Ellyn Smith, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
  • Lev noted that, in the 1960s, conglomerated companies were trending in strategy circles because of economies of scale and the risk mitigation of being in multiple industries, where if one area is struggling due to external factors, the company's risk is spread out across a few different sectors.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Agglutinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agglutinate. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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