congeries

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for congeries
Noun
  • This is nothing new, of course; for decades now, using a computer has meant being online, and the conglomeration of digital materials in your head, on your hard disk, and on the internet often cause trouble.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 July 2025
  • Led by the Six Companies, a conglomeration of Chinese mutual-aid associations, Chinese residents across the United States had defied the law.
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • His father is a member of Parliament Farmer is the son of Lord Michael Farmer, the founder of British trading conglomerate Metal & Commodity Company Ltd. Lord Farmer is also a member of the House of the Lords, the upper house of the United Kingdom’s Parliament.
    Kait Hanson, People.com, 24 July 2025
  • This is a company that plays the long game, something made easier by its ownership structure: L’Oréal is still majority owned by the founder’s family, the Bettencourt Meyers, and by Swiss conglomerate Nestlé, which bought a stake in 1974.
    Adam Gale, Fortune, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Divide the steak and onion mixture into four equal portions in the pan and top each portion with 2 slices of cheese.
    Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
  • As the mixture chills, churns, and stirs, ice crystals slowly form, turning it into soft ice cream that can then be frozen further to firm up.
    Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
  • Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With a hodgepodge group at running back featuring Javonte Williams, Miles Sanders, Jaydon Blue and others, success up front will be the biggest factor in determining if the run game comes back to life in 2025.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2025
  • Shortly before midnight, the Senate Budget Committee unveiled 940 pages that account for the latest revisions to the sweeping bill, a hodgepodge of tax, border, and energy priorities.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Her goal is to start a women’s consciousness-raising group, and her efforts have brought together a motley, inquisitive quintet.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.
    Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • The document offers a potpourri of high-level policy recommendations to counter these trends.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Nonetheless, everything Trump has poured into this legislative potpourri — from tax and spending cuts to a big Pentagon boost and sprawling policy directives — depends on the package getting special consideration under special rules.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • On a sequential basis, Linde sales benefited from both an increase in volume and price increases and a favorable product mix.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The Maine artist’s sound is now a mix of folk and indie-pop, with catchy, relatable lyrics that have gone viral on social media.
    Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Congeries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congeries. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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