conglomerates 1 of 2

noun

plural of conglomerate
as in corporations
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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verb

present tense third-person singular of conglomerate
1
as in gathers
to come together into one body or place people conglomerated in the downtown streets for an impromptu victory celebration

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2
as in accumulates
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 conglomerates
Noun
The new company, headed up by David Ellison, son of tech billionaire Larry Ellison, is now one of the biggest media conglomerates in the country and is going by the name Skydance. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026 Its members are independent producers, with no studios, conglomerates or state bodies involved. — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 Skydance said merging the media conglomerates will give it nearly $70 billion in revenue. — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026 The acquisition greatly expanded Sunkyong’s energy business and helped establish it as one of the country’s largest conglomerates. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026 VinFast is backed by Vingroup, one of Vietnam's largest private conglomerates, founded by Vietnamese billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong, which has built an ecosystem around its EVs spanning charging and after-sales services. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026 Although Iran’s leading pharmaceutical firms are not themselves under sanctions, several of the largest are connected to sanctioned charitable conglomerates or to sanctioned individuals. — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026 Roughly 60 percent of transaction volume comes from brands and conglomerates that do more than $500 million in annual revenue. — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026 What’s particularly remarkable is that Copenhagen has never built its influence on the star power of major luxury conglomerates or traditional fashion houses. — Miriam Nehring, Glamour, 7 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conglomerates
  1. corporations
  2. gathers
  3. accumulates
  4. empires
  5. converges
  6. clusters
  7. meets
  8. assembles
Noun
  • This latest incident underscores the potentially existential stakes for some countries of their reliance on private corporations for low Earth orbit telecommunications.
    — Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The real question facing America is whether corporations exist to serve society, or society exists to serve corporations.
    — Christopher Marquis, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of corporations
Verb
  • An agent that gathers records or checks for required information may operate with limited intervention.
    — Heather Bassett, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • When a storm, usually fed by unusually warm water, suddenly gathers a lot of strength, sustaining winds that increase in speed by at least 35 mph (56 kph) in 24 hours, it is called rapid intensification.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of gathers
Verb
  • The descent into crisis-club territory usually happens by degrees, a malaise that accumulates slowly as one poor performance follows another.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • This creates a point in the circular segment where tension accumulates, which in turn leads to the formation of a pointed edge.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of accumulates
Noun
  • This latest group of founders stands on the shoulders of giants from the noughties like Spotify, Klarna, and Skype, who themselves took inspiration from the postwar design empires of IKEA, H&M and Tetra Pak (modernizer of the milk carton).
    — Jan Larsson, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Istanbul, city of empires The city now known as Istanbul has been at the heart of empires, from the Roman to the Byzantine to the Ottoman, and their legacies can be found throughout the Turkish metropolis.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of empires
Verb
  • All of it converges on the single event of a physician deciding to write the prescription.
    — Harshit Jain, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Dealers are offering their best, timed to be on view when the art world converges on New York for the Armory Show fair, opening later this month.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of converges
Verb
  • The historical profile again clusters tightly.
    — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Liquidity cluster Wells Fargo added that most liquidity already clusters around the market open and close, making the idea of stretching trading hours even further counterproductive.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of clusters
Verb
  • The most important job of the General Assembly is to adopt a state budget, in a timely manner, that meets the moment and invests in the future.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026
  • On the prison bus, Thomas meets Lisa, his con-artist partner-to-be from episode one.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of meets
Verb
  • Simpler battery packs lower costs The company buys battery cells and assembles its own packs rather than manufacturing the cells themselves.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
  • His team then assembles mood boards using references from films, music videos and other media before developing sketches and finalizing designs.
    — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of assembles

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“Conglomerates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conglomerates. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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