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conglomerate

[kuhn-glom-er-it, kuhng-, kuhn-glom-uh-rayt, kuhng-] / kənˈglɒm ər ɪt, kəŋ-, kənˈglɒm əˌreɪt, kəŋ- /




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Several European firms have seen their Russian operations effectively lost -- most recently Swiss food conglomerate Nestle and French supermarket giant Auchan.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

India's Jio Platforms makes its stock market debut on Wednesday after a record-breaking IPO, capping billionaire owner Mukesh Ambani's years-long drive to diversify his conglomerate beyond oil refining.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

The conglomerate era, it should be recalled, dwindled away in the 1980s, when investors recognized that in most cases the parts were more valuable than the whole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

JBS,” Lahn said, taking aim at the Brazilian-based conglomerate that is the largest meatpacking company in the United States.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Then, snowballing the rest of the clothes into one soft, conglomerate mass, she stuffed them out of sight under the bed.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Both were once a part of giant conglomerates whose names they still bear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

I’m talking about the five Japanese conglomerates, or “trading houses,” in which Buffett has been investing for six years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

His portfolio, taken together, suggests a particular interest in the invisible forces governing everyday life: particulates, sundown, industrial produce conglomerates.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

"We've been putting solar panels on our malls just to save on energy," Frederic DyBuncio, president and CEO of SM Investments Corp, told AFP, adding that the country's other conglomerates were doing the same.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

"All of these are just in a kind of conglomerated business under Elon Musk's name."

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

Late on Monday, Abu Dhabi-based conglomerated International Holding Co. said it will make a $381 million investment into Adani Enterprises.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

The former is supposed to lead to the latter, as it seemingly has for the five companies conglomerated under the intimidating acronym FAANG.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021

I’ve written extensively elsewhere with co-authors about why it makes sense for media companies to break apart rather than stay conglomerated.

From Forbes ● Mar. 26, 2015

Eschewing diaper, you roll the Act round the royal infant; you roll it up and pin it in the conglomerated wisdom of the nation.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 by Various

Possible answers invoke myriad world-making methods, from titanic impacts to the gluing together of spaceborne hail, where the conglomerating force of gravity may battle disruptions from magnetic whirlpools that nascent worlds are thought to encounter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

“The Globes have exhibited some amount of prescience in conglomerating film and television,” said Matti Leshem, a movie producer and the chief executive of Protagonist, a Hollywood branding company.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2013

In an era when most multinational firms have given up their old conglomerating ways, Jardines retains a panoply of seemingly unconnected businesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maurice Greenberg, a Russian immigrant, started the Connecticut Leather Co. in Hartford in 1932 to sell supplies to shoemakers, but his sons Arnold and Leonard began conglomerating in the 1960s.

From Time Magazine Archive

In June the military chiefs at Washington were vainly doing all that military men could do to make something like the beginnings of an army out of the conglomerating mass.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood


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