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
Other projects relying heavily on digital design were the 76-story 8 Spruce Street (2010) in Manhattan, whose undulating exterior curtain walls appear 3-D printed, and the cloud-like glass agglomeration of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2006).
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News Desk, Artforum, 11 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
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News Desk, Artforum, 11 Dec. 2025
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.
—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
See All Example Sentences for agglomeration
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agglomeration
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The company plans to overhaul about 75% of its home assortment by June, with a bedding refresh in the fall and kitchen and dining updates set for 2027.—
Star Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
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It’s been partners with Jordan Brand since 2018, resulting in yearly kits and a robust assortment of sneakers.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
4 May 2026
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Notably, Bauhinia blakeana is a sterile hybrid, resulting from the cross-pollination of two different plant varieties.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Although Abel will be driving the meeting, Berkshire shareholders are likely to still poise a wide variety of questions to the company’s leadership.—
Yun Li,Alex Harring,Sarah Min,
CNBC,
2 May 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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This big-batch punch showcases muscadine wine and bourbon with a medley of fruit juices, grenadine, and club soda.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
29 Apr. 2026
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Food scraps, leaves and wood chips are some essentials that make up the compost medley needed to repair the soil.—
Kara Finnstrom,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Create a cheerful canvas collage inspired by artist Robin Anne Cooper.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2026
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His life has come to the reader in bits and pieces, a collage, or, like his poems, a cut up.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Apr. 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 8 May. 2026.
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