agglutination
Example Sentences
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By 1989, The Times reported, Davis had “reshaped Gulf & Western from a ragtag agglutination of about 100 businesses to a thriving corporation focused in entertainment, publishing and finance.”
From Los Angeles Times
Landsteiner inferred that there must be different types of blood, and that they could be classified based on these observed agglutinations.
From The New Yorker
Otherwise, like me, you might find yourself marveling at her mastery of language but distracted by wondering how she landed on words like “agglutination” or phrases such as “omniscient homunculus.”
From Washington Post
In the 1800s, doctors knew that transfusing blood between individuals could cause red blood cells to clump — a phenomenon called agglutination.
From The Verge
One example is the way Finnish uses agglutination, or builds complex words out of multiple smaller words or parts of words.
From Washington Times
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