as in empire
a group of businesses or enterprises under one control
the huge media conglomerate owns TV and radio stations, a cable company, and a movie studio
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as in to gather
to come together into one body or place
people conglomerated in the downtown streets for an impromptu victory celebration
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as in to accumulate
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
over the years the town's discarded junk conglomerated at the bottom of the river
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Recent Examples of conglomerate
Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 May 2026
That evolution can be traced back to long before the current era of global luxury conglomerates and celebrity creative directors.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
Allan Smith, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
The vision of the commission is clear in a diagram for the War Department that sought to streamline the bureaucracy, conglomerating the existing 18 divisions into eight.
—Laura Ellyn Smith, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
As its rivals increasingly conglomerate to exert pressure against it, the West is often forced to ignore the flaws of its allies.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Noun
The luxury conglomerate, owner of maisons such as Cartier, Piaget and Van Cleef & Arpels, saw its sales increase by 13 percent in Q4, ending off this fiscal year with a bang.
—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 May 2026
That evolution can be traced back to long before the current era of global luxury conglomerates and celebrity creative directors.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
Verb
Media conglomerates Disney and Paramount have also made strategic financial decisions to win more favorable treatment from Trump and his administration.
—Allan Smith, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
The vision of the commission is clear in a diagram for the War Department that sought to streamline the bureaucracy, conglomerating the existing 18 divisions into eight.
—Laura Ellyn Smith, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
Adjective
Simultaneously, a series of conglomerate takeovers of local manufacturing plants led to waves of re-structuring and cost-cutting: factory jobs no longer seemed quite so stable.
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
As its rivals increasingly conglomerate to exert pressure against it, the West is often forced to ignore the flaws of its allies.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conglomerate
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Since last year, when the RSF overran parts of Darfur and Kordofan, the militia has commandeered the gum trade, integrating it into its smuggling empire and further starving government coffers.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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Today, each sibling oversees a different part of the empire.—
Kevin Lim,
CNBC,
31 May 2026
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Movie night is a chance for the Islanders to gather together to witness some of the major moments and own up and apologize.—
Carolyn Burt,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
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Helicopter footage captured by NBC4 showed police tape cordoning off a section of the residential street, where a large number of emergency responders were gathered.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2026
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Understanding how those filaments emerge is key to understanding how gas accumulates and ultimately collapses into new stars.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
1 June 2026
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Cops released a composite sketch and video of the suspect Friday evening and are asking the public’s help in tracking him down.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2026
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The base model, built upon the skeleton of a Ford F-150 Raptor R, offers up a lightweight composite body along with four-wheel drive.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
30 May 2026
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Past, present, and future versions of the South Park figures—childhood’s tokens, mined and mined again—are made to converge around adulthood’s most representative, most depressing reality.—
Theo Belci,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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In May, tennis fans in Panama hats converge on Roland Garros Stadium for the French Open.—
Mary Winston Nicklin,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Teachers took on a hybrid role, instructing in their classrooms while also accommodating the online learners.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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The hybrid cargo aircraft can reach speeds of 174 mph and fly up to 932 miles, as per the company.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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And in case there were any remaining doubts that masks never had the slightest chance of stopping respiratory viruses, of the studies that met their inclusion criteria, all of them came after 2019.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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In this screen-free environment, the two narrators meet and form a friendship that strengthens them both.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Conglomerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conglomerate. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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