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agglomerate

[uh-glom-uh-reyt, uh-glom-er-it, -uh-reyt] / əˈglɒm əˌreɪt, əˈglɒm ər ɪt, -əˌreɪt /


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Ideas don’t develop — they agglomerate in a repetitive, undifferentiated jumble, and the power they might have drains away.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2024

The virus makes countless copies of Ralph himself, which eventually agglomerate to become a Ralphzilla that destroys the web’s infrastructure in pursuit of trapping Vanellope in their relationship.

From Slate Dec. 4, 2018

Ross, 79, billionaire investor known for aggressive moves to agglomerate and sell failing steel- and coal-industry interests.

From The Guardian Jan. 3, 2017

So kudos to Schumer for using a fresh word, which we will promptly agglomerate.

From Washington Post Aug. 7, 2013

This view, that the agglomerate of earth and water was not a perfect sphere, was universally accepted in the later Middle Ages, and the new cosmography required its refutation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“That level of agglomerated industry working together,” he said, “you don’t see that in Europe.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

The old model of urban economics, agglomerated vertically in a clutch of downtown skyscrapers, has gradually ceded to a broader vision of mobility, remote access and live-work neighborhoods.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2021

To increase efficiency, hedgerows and copses have been eliminated and farmland agglomerated into increasingly larger tracts of monoculture.

From The Guardian Oct. 10, 2019

For centuries, wars reallocated huge territories, as empires were agglomerated or dismantled and states wiped off the map.

From New York Times Dec. 18, 2011

The granulations have agglomerated at the centre of the drops.

From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

Taken together, they depict a wildly aspirational luxury metropolis that seems to have tipped over without warning into “Blade Runner” dystopia, a city agglomerating by algorithm, recalling a line from J.G.

From New York Times Nov. 12, 2021

That’s because it runs counter to Facebook’s long history of agglomerating as much user data as it can, from wherever it can find it.

From Slate Feb. 27, 2019

The temptation is to see it as two geniuses with a galaxy of stars agglomerating around them.

From The Guardian Jan. 1, 2013

And by agglomerating that kind of data together on a roadway, in a forest, wherever, what have you, you're able to create this, kind of, very rich picture of the world.

From Scientific American Jan. 5, 2011

The qualities that a good agglomerating machine should present are as follows: 1.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various




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