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Recent Examples of conglomeration
In the 1980s, the Motown label finally succumbed to the conglomeration trend in the music industry.
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Usa Today Network, USA Today, 2 Feb. 2026
Geneva’s current police station is located just off the Fox River at 20 Police Plaza, and is a conglomeration of three buildings built in 1915, 1953 and 1987, according to the city.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Data centers are conglomerations of warehouses storing thousands of computer servers.
—Sarah Henry, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2025
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Usa Today Network, USA Today, 2 Feb. 2026
Geneva’s current police station is located just off the Fox River at 20 Police Plaza, and is a conglomeration of three buildings built in 1915, 1953 and 1987, according to the city.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Data centers are conglomerations of warehouses storing thousands of computer servers.
—Sarah Henry, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conglomeration
Noun
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Also, in fragmented, informal markets, aggregation is power.—
Maurizio Caio,
semafor.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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But reform must always preserve independence, aggregation, permanence and clarity.—
Tim Regan-Porter,
Denver Post,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Adept at separating the unseen from the seen, Lemann here chronicles his family’s accumulation of wealth, whatever the moral costs or compromises, and their subsequent acculturation and partial deracination.—
Brenda Wineapple,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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The fan guards inside the walk-in cooler had an accumulation of dust.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
April 3,
Sacbee.com,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Katz said first-degree murder, or Murder 1, would have meant the possibility of life without parole, but that, in the aggregate, the remaining four charges could amount to 90 years to life, if the sentences are consecutive.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Previous research involved encapsulating calcium lactate, nutrients, and spores in lightweight aggregates and/or capsules.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The group then alerted Hermanos de la Calle to help with housing.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Analysis of past avalanche accidents has indicated that larger group sizes (4 or more people) have higher chances of being caught in avalanches.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Codas, or groupings of clicks, were longer during the birth and then became shorter after the newborn emerged, the authors wrote in Scientific Reports.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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Now that first grouping, while fun, might be too small a sample size to take to the bank at this point.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Phlox is a perennial that has clusters of blooms that mirror the look of hydrangeas, and phlox comes in similar flower shades of pink, purple, and white.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2026
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The branches of the trigeminal nerve converge in one single cluster.—
Julia Daye,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The museum’s director, Pierre-Olivier Costa, met me in the entry hall and led me through the galleries housing Mucem’s permanent exhibition of items from its collection of folk arts and popular traditions.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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Agencies would have to revisit investigative protocols, evidence collection procedures and interagency coordination, among other things, the governor said.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Morton kosher salt, and ¼ cup heavy cream in a large bowl until pudding mix is dissolved and mixture is smooth.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 Apr. 2026
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The mixture was made from simple ingredients such as coconut oil, cocoa powder, sunflower oil, zinc, and thanaka tree bark.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Conglomeration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conglomeration. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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