How to Use consolidated in a Sentence

consolidated

adjective
  • The first is electoral, the creation of a consolidated Hindu vote bank.
    Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • While there are a some that are consolidated and seem to work fine, efforts in recent years to consolidate more of them have gone nowhere.
    Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The consolidated city-county faces a $3 billion budget deficit over the next four years.
    Kenneth Schrupp | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 July 2024
  • And while white-collar unions might be on the rise, legacy unions often fare best due to their consolidated power.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • As Russia retreated from Kyiv and the north last spring, the fighting became consolidated in the east, forming what is the current front line.
    Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The ruling marks a milestone in a consolidated lawsuit that began a decade ago.
    Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Players are entering a market to play for the crown jewel, but in the next three to five years, the industry will become consolidated.
    Rebecca Souw, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
  • In practice, this has cut jobs, consolidated dispatch centers, and made trains less safe, as fewer workers have less time to conduct checks on more train cars.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Thanks to the consolidated and immense volume of the falls, Kaieteru is considered the largest single drop waterfall by water volume and boasts a drop of 741 feet.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
  • While the fourth quarter earned less than desirable outcomes, the full consolidated results of 2023 don't fare much better.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The storage bags will keep your items orderly and consolidated while neatly being stored out of the way in your closet, attic, or basement.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This is because these memories or skills become consolidated in the brain during sleep, whether at night or while napping.
    Steven Bender, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The school system also hired more drivers, consolidated bus stops, and redrew routes.
    James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • One reason is that the industry has become more consolidated, especially on the DRAM side, while new sources of demand like cloud servers have helped smooth the cycle.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The consolidated route will run through Feb. 14, when nonstop flights between Seattle and both Cleveland and Pittsburgh will resume.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The move is a bet that a consolidated offering can attract a critical mass of large customers in a market where profits have been elusive.
    Mario Aguilar, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The surge in demand caps a turnaround for Nakheel, which was at the center of a property crash in 2009 that nearly bankrupted Dubai, but has since consolidated operations and cut costs.
    Zainab Fattah, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The Court dismissed the consolidated cases and voted to remove a stay on a federal district court order.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • There could be some benefits to a more consolidated market, the researchers noted.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But there was no room for it on a consolidated streaming service packed with more mainstream populist programming.
    Alex Cranz, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
  • How Venezuela’s socialist strongman took and consolidated power — and why the opposition now sees cause for hope.
    Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • That extreme heat soon moved onshore; because the northern hemisphere has more land than the southern, this is always the time of year when consolidated global temperatures reach their height.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The most important step is to make a consolidated plan of action to drive incremental positive mix or reverse bad trends.
    Avy Punwasee, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The meat industry is highly consolidated, with a small share of big companies supplying most of the beef, chicken, and pork consumed by Americans.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Orban, in power since 2010, has cracked down on the free press, consolidated power and been accused of hollowing out Hungary's democracy.
    Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
  • By the end of the decade, Phoenix was well consolidated as a metropolitan area, with continuous, unabated growth.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
  • As the industry has grown more consolidated, critics say PBMs have exerted greater control over patients’ access to medicine.
    Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 9 July 2024
  • Clients who enroll in such programs usually are required to close most, if not all, credit accounts and make single monthly payments on a consolidated balance over three to five years.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
  • The two cases were joined for a consolidated trial before a jury in New Haven Superior Court, officials said.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2024
  • This term was extended to comply with state requirement to comply with the consolidated election cycle.
    Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024

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