agglomerate
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
New technologies often agglomerate, or cluster, in a specific geographic area, whether it’s the auto industry in Detroit, the movie business in Los Angeles, or previous tech booms in the Bay Area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
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
If Charles desired higher rank, the emperor would be quite willing to erect his territories into a realm and to create him monarch of his own agglomerated possessions, welded into a new unity.
From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam
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
Men are not apt to change their characters by agglomerating; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Henry Cabot Lodge
