agglomerates 1 of 2

noun

plural of agglomerate
as in assortments
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things the Holy Roman Empire was an ever-varying agglomerate of central European states that managed to survive for 1,000 years

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agglomerates

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verb

present tense third-person singular of agglomerate
as in rounds
to form into a round compact mass breakfast cereal consisting of agglomerated clusters of wheat, rice, and nuts stays crunchy in milk

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agglomerates
  1. assortments
  2. rounds
  3. varieties
  4. rolls
  5. medleys
  6. balls
  7. jumbles
  8. clumps
Noun
  • Independent retailers typically place smaller orders, have fewer approval layers, and can adjust assortments closer to delivery than large national chains.
    — Jessica Binns, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The vintage furniture—frames and mirrors and desks dating anywhere from the 16th to 19th centuries—sings in artful assortments.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of assortments
Verb
  • Brewers third baseman David Hamilton rounds the bases after hitting a home run in the ninth inning.
    — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Wildlife advocates are coordinating care, mapping turtles’ origins through genetics and attempting releases, while a federal funding bill rounds its way through committees.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of rounds
Noun
  • In addition, butterflies are natural pollinators that provide critical pollination to several varieties of garden plants each spring, according to LoRusso.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Some canned soups come in low-sodium varieties, but check the sodium content on the nutrition label to be sure.
    — Laura Bradley, HEALTH, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of varieties
Verb
  • Customers can do the treatment fully clothed as the water rolls under them, powered by a series of hydro-jets.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • While brittle Christina rolls her eyes at being stuck with an analog guy to cover Big Tech, Jeff’s editor Andy (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is a far more chill ally.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of rolls
Noun
  • Lowlights included uninspiring medleys.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • For the elder millennials, the bittersweet spot was the medleys of older Kanye cuts released from 2004 to 2016 (think The College Dropout to The Life of Pablo).
    — Adelle Platon, VIBE.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of medleys
Verb
  • Bassey signs, Ike balls out An hour after the Warriors officially signed reserve center Charles Bassey to a one-year deal, Graham Ike did his best to show that the backup center position should still be considered in flux.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 10 July 2026
  • The second and third outs were called third strikes, both of them initially balls before All-Star catcher Realmuto challenged through the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), or so called robot umpires, that will be used in the regular season for the first time this year.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of balls
Noun
  • 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
  • Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of jumbles
Verb
  • Dividing clumps every few years in early spring also maintains their vigor.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
  • Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
    — Allison DeAngelis, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of clumps
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“Agglomerates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agglomerates. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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