as in merger
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
the consolidation of several intelligence agencies into one super agency
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Recent Examples of consolidation
For starters, ZScaler's problems may well be the result of those two are winning all the business as the historically fragmented cybersecurity industry trends toward vendor consolidation.
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 May 2026
Mayor Karen Bass called for the consolidation last year as part of her budget for fiscal year 2025-26.
—City News Service, Daily News, 26 May 2026
Debt consolidation loans, on the other hand, combine multiple balances into one new loan, ideally with a lower interest rate, saving you money on interest charges.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 26 May 2026
Require a congressional vote for the elimination or consolidation of any agency whose budget and mission were set by statute.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2026
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 May 2026
Mayor Karen Bass called for the consolidation last year as part of her budget for fiscal year 2025-26.
—City News Service, Daily News, 26 May 2026
Debt consolidation loans, on the other hand, combine multiple balances into one new loan, ideally with a lower interest rate, saving you money on interest charges.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 26 May 2026
Require a congressional vote for the elimination or consolidation of any agency whose budget and mission were set by statute.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consolidation
Noun
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Such mergers of different sources of resentment were among the major causes for war in 1914.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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Khan’s greatest success was likely in deterring a larger number of mergers with the threat of regulatory pressure.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2026
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Of course, in 1915, Newton's theory of gravity was supplanted by Einstein's geometric theory of gravity, general relativity, which sees this fundamental force arise from the curvature of the fabric of spacetime (the four-dimensional unification of space and time) caused by objects with mass.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 May 2026
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Sardinia’s unification, in the mid-1800s, with what would become the Kingdom of Italy is seen by many as an act of colonization.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 May 2026
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That is problematic because the feeding and merging processes that allow black holes to grow to supermassive status had always been thought to take longer than 1 billion years.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 May 2026
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But in this merging process, several threads have been left behind.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
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“Consolidation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consolidation. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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