as in assortment
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
the bedroom community became a vast agglomeration of houses, schools, and small shops
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Recent Examples of agglomeration
The big bet of California Forever is that by acquiring enough land to build an entire city from scratch, the investors can profit from the economics of agglomeration.
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Chris Elmendorf, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
An appropriate plastic-to-salt ratio is the key factor for preventing metal agglomeration during SAC synthesis.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
How does a singular musical personality emerge from an agglomeration of pitches?
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
The fact that traditionalism varies across and within societies is hardly surprising: some version of that finding is cooked into the survey method with its agglomeration of micro-level data.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2012
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Chris Elmendorf, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
An appropriate plastic-to-salt ratio is the key factor for preventing metal agglomeration during SAC synthesis.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
How does a singular musical personality emerge from an agglomeration of pitches?
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
The fact that traditionalism varies across and within societies is hardly surprising: some version of that finding is cooked into the survey method with its agglomeration of micro-level data.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agglomeration
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This assortment also includes a large selection of earrings, bracelets, anklets, rings, hair tie sets, keychains and more.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The first release of an eight-album series in which American composer and pianist Michael Harrison collaborates with a global assortment of artists combining Eastern and Western musical traditions.—
Arts Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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The six varieties of Caruso giardiniera are now available online, and in stores in 30 states, including more than 100 stores in the Chicago area.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The hotel offers a variety of half-day and full-day excursions.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Mar. 2026
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.—
Madison Chapman,
Outside,
25 Mar. 2026
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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The 2024 World silver medalist brought her characteristic grace and glamour — and a new, high-scoring opening jump — to her Sophia Loren medley short program.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
27 Mar. 2026
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Videos posted on social media showed an attack drone plowing into a building and setting off a fire in Lviv's city center -- a UNESCO World Heritage site with a medley of cobblestone streets and historic buildings.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Mar. 2026
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In a roadside brewery in the zero-waste village of Kamikatsu in Tokoshima, the pub’s triple-height seating area looks like a collage of windows in every size, affording a vertical panorama of mountains.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
1 Apr. 2026
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In this pre-synthesizer age, Bebe and Louis Barron utilized a mind-blowing selection of electronic gizmos to create a unique collage of otherworldly noise.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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While the sculptures are agglomerates and amalgams of ordinary objects, the videos are short vignettes, narrative monologues from the point of view of the timeline’s protagonists: the child, the parent, the lover, the patient, the widow.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
17 Sep. 2025
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The merger between Penguin Random House (itself an agglomerate of two giant publishing corporations) and Simon & Schuster, for example, came as a result of the publishing industry’s ongoing struggles with Amazon.—
Josephine Livingstone,
The New Republic,
22 Dec. 2020
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“Agglomeration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agglomeration. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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