conglomerate
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The company recently completed a multiyear restructuring which carved the industrial conglomerate into three publicly traded companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Financial Times leads on the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, as he considers merging his two companies SpaceX and Tesla into a "sprawling conglomerate spanning rockets, satellites, social media, robots and cars".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The top US diplomat will visit Jamnagar, in the western state of Gujarat, a port and stronghold of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance conglomerate and its flagship refinery, the world's largest.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
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
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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
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
SK Group began as a textile company in 1953 but quickly grew across a wide swath of industries to become one of South Korea's biggest conglomerates.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
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
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"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
They decided to blot Austria from the map of Europe, and to partition out the conglomerated nations composing the empire among the conquerors.
From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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
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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
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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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