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[kuhn-sawr-shee-uhm, -tee-] / kənˈsɔr ʃi əm, -ti- /








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Yet they now sit in the third tier after entering administration and enduring relegation last season, before a US consortium bought the club in May.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

In April, another deal was signed with an ExxonMobil-led consortium for exploratory drilling in the northwestern Ionian Sea set to begin in 2027.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The work was carried out through the Bat1K consortium, a global effort dedicated to sequencing the genomes of all living bat species and co-founded by UCD Professor Emma Teeling.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

A KKR-led consortium established Helix in June with anchor investors including Nvidia, the Kuwait Investment Authority and power generation and retail electricity company Vistra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Rabi stitched together the new lab’s sponsoring consortium, known as Associated Universities, from nine large Eastern research institutions that would have been hard pressed to compete individually in the multimillion-dollar world of postwar high-energy physics.*

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

But consortia funding these projects include publicly traded companies.

From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026

"Most large atlases like this require large consortia with dozens of laboratories but our method is far more efficient than other approaches."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026

Financial institutions are now forming consortia for cross-border settlement.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

The federally funded research center employs about 830 staff, making it one of the largest consortia of scientists who study weather, climate and Earth systems using advanced models and supercomputers in the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Virkkunen said companies from outside the EU could participate as long as the consortia are majority-owned by European entities and no “high-risk vendors” are involved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

As the model continues to grow across the game globally, it remains to be seen just how consortiums will adapt to manage all of their assets, and whether fans will continue to accept it.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

Under PFI deals, private consortiums build facilities such as schools, hospitals and roads, in return for regular payments over as many as 30 years.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

The legacy media is facing all kinds of financial reversals, and I think it’s tied up in the ownership of a lot of papers by big corporate consortiums who have to worry about their shareholders.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2024

“Should there be need for more capital, he’s somebody who’s very adept at putting consortiums together.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2024

"However, international treaties and consortiums discourage nuclear testing," the firm said in a report summary.

From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2022


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