unified

verb

Definition of unifiednext
past tense of unify
1
as in consolidated
to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control will unify the several departments into a single operation

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2
as in combined
to come together to form a single unit the two labor unions unified in order to strengthen their bargaining position with the manufacturers

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Recent Examples of unified While Creed-Miles and Edgar-Jones’s respective Los Angeles premiere looks embraced runway pieces from separate decades, what unified their sister style choices was the romantic energy imbued into each design. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 Ellison said Skydance has already unified ad sales across the platforms and is working to unify back-end tech stacks. — Catriona Marangi,sarah Whitten, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 There are whispers in France of these protests transforming into another Yellow Vests movement, which was leaderless, nationwide and unified a broad church of grievances. — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 Services will merge, studios will merge, org structures will be set, the future of CBS News and CNN will be determined, and sports rights will be unified. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026 The comment is politically sensitive because the Dominican Republic was once invaded by Haiti, leading to Hispaniola being unified under Haitian rule for 22 years. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026 That landscape needed to be replaced in order to give the operators unified visibility across sales, terminal operations, warehouse management and revenue accounting. — Abha Dogra, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026 The entire Department is unified behind the Secretary’s vision and will continue working to put our warfighters and America first. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 Each one of her novels presents a different setting and dynamic, but her oeuvre is unified by careful thought, sharp style, and an uncanny ability to make the pages want to turn. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unified
  1. consolidated
  2. combined
  3. integrated
  4. united
  5. concentrated
  6. fused
  7. merged
Verb
  • The district attorney’s office is requesting a jury trial and the two cases are expected to be consolidated for a single trial, according to WTAE.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • That tells you that this is not consolidated at all, and there is not much vertical integration.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of consolidated
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  • By 2015, New Atlas was covering innovations such as the Diamond Hotend, which combined three filament feeds into a single nozzle, although even that approach could produce waste towers when changing colors.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The gusty offshore winds combined with very warm and dry conditions will maintain Red Flag Warnings for most of Los Angeles and Ventura counties through Saturday.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of combined
Verb
  • Pan Yan The substance is integrated into a transparent, medium-sized insert designed to fit onto a garbage bin lid.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The disruption hit myriad services provided by Yandex, a tech giant akin to Google whose services are deeply integrated into daily life in Russia and whose digital infrastructure other third-party platforms rely on.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of integrated
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  • Kabila's new Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, or FRN, includes rebel groups formerly united under the Congo River Alliance, whose former leader Corneille Nangaa will serve as one of the new coalition's two vice presidents.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Kabila’s new Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, or FRN, includes rebel groups formerly united under the Congo River Alliance, whose former leader Corneille Nangaa will serve as one of the new coalition’s four vice presidents.
    — Justin Kabumba, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of united
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  • In my view, the root cause is corporate power—the way modern corporations are owned, governed, and permitted to organize markets and politics to their own advantage—and how relentlessly that power has concentrated over the past 50 years.
    — Christopher Marquis, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In recent weeks, the gains made by the index have been highly concentrated, with the S&P 500 hitting new highs even as more of the 500 stocks that comprise the benchmark hit new lows than highs individually.
    — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of concentrated
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  • His personal agony fused with despair over the military government, which continued to crack down on democracy activists.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Long before then, Basquiat had become a legend, an icon of a decade that fused the liberations of Downtown with the frustrations of Uptown.
    — Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of fused
Verb
  • The verticality of these works can be seen as an aspirational self-portrait in which destruction and rebirth are literally and metaphorically merged.
    — John Yau, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The campus in question had already been closed and merged with another by the time the takeover was announced, but Morath said many of the district’s schools were struggling.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Oct. 2026
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“Unified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unified. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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