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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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He then singled out Ambani, whose Reliance conglomerate owns Jio, India's biggest mobile network operator.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

But as Starbucks reportedly weighs a takeover of Chipotle Mexican Grill, you could end up getting both from one massive, taco-pumpkin-spice-latte conglomerate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Mesabi is part of Indian conglomerate Essar Group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Howie Buffett’s appointment as chairman ushers in a new era at Berkshire, and puts the conglomerate in uncharted territory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

“You had the whole McKay conglomerate in the soup today.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

SpaceX doesn’t directly compete with China’s launch providers; the nation’s two major conglomerates and its legion of startups primarily sell to their own government.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

Since the 1980s, Latin American broadcast media has become increasingly dominated by a small number of large commercial conglomerates, mostly tied to wealthy, powerful families.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

After more mergers, it eventually became part of Penguin Random House—by far the largest of the publishing conglomerates, with over 350 imprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

Self- worth tends to be narrowly defined by admission to a few highly selective universities and prestigious, high-paying jobs at conglomerates like Samsung, Hyundai, and LG.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

"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

It is more probable that they were at length fast frozen up in some inlet, or that small floating fields of ice have conglomerated around them, and bound them in icy fetters to the mainland.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 by William Chambers

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

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 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

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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