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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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By working with creators, the entertainment conglomerate is trying to build on that loyalty and boost engagement with its various characters and products.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

He will notably raise plans by the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries to finance a refinery in Texas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The Samsung Group affiliate’s planned AI infrastructure capacity could be supported by computing demand from its parent conglomerate, reducing its reliance on large outside customers, Hong writes in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata group expanded under JRD Tata who transformed it into a professionally managed conglomerate.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Sidley & Austin was representing the chemical conglomerate Union Carbide in an antitrust trial involving the sale of one of its business holdings.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

"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

Companies rarely welcome activists, and Korea has historically been especially inhospitable—in part because of the sprawling, family-controlled conglomerates called chaebols that still dominate the market today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

It was the boom time, and the Wall Street banks and management consultants and insurance conglomerates were crowding the bulletin boards looking for talent.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

"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

A vast, black, conglomerated volume of vapor swung against the mountain summits, and curled heavily down over the cliffs.

From The Portland Sketch Book 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

With such sales, no wonder the conglomerates are conglomerating in the record business.

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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