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amalgam

[uh-mal-guhm] / əˈmæl gəm /


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They have a vast travelling army with them and millions more at home, a strange amalgam of positivity and anxiety, belief and fear.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

The government's tracking system relies on an amalgam of public and private information sifted, sorted and packaged by contractors that include Palantir Technologies, Deloitte, Japanese conglomerate NEC and smaller spyware specialists.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

“The questions of marriage and having children were sort of an amalgam of two real relationships that I merged into one onscreen.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2026

Nations meeting in Geneva agreed "to end the use of dental amalgam by 2034, marking a historic milestone in reducing mercury pollution", the conference announced in its closing statement.

From Barron's Nov. 7, 2025

Kuhn’s concept of a paradigm, which he presented as an amalgam of a practice, a theory, and an educational programme, represented a particular way of interlocking these three variables.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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