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- noun Plural form of
conglomeration .
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Examples
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Many of their best films are such odd ducks, such weird conglomerations of genres and tone, that they almost seem to create their own new categories film by film.
Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored Michael Giltz 2011
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Pieces of rock were suspended within incomprehensible conglomerations of piping and tubing.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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The differences between the economy of the nineteenth century and that of the twenty-first are too many to list, but today, as in Jefferson's time of independent farmers and shopkeepers, it is individuals, not large conglomerations, that propel the economy.
Andrei Cherny: Individual Age Economics Andrei Cherny 2011
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Many of their best films are such odd ducks, such weird conglomerations of genres and tone, that they almost seem to create their own new categories film by film.
Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored Michael Giltz 2011
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And you'll start seeing books endorsed by these review conglomerations.
msagara: A question about vanity press publications and bookstores msagara 2009
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Pieces of rock were suspended within incomprehensible conglomerations of piping and tubing.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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The futuristic film reportedly will not be set on Mars, as the original was, but in conglomerations called Euromerica and New Shanghai.
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They are scattered across the continent but focused on some very large conglomerations such as Cairo and Lagos and consumer products play into that.
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They are scattered across the continent but focused on some very large conglomerations such as Cairo and Lagos and consumer products play into that.
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I think a subtle version of this is the deregulation of the media industry during the Reagan years. once the lid was off, and conglomerations acquired as many news entities as they could, the effectiveness of mainstream American journalism plummeted. it is a prime example of the failure of market driven everything: some things have to be provided for the common good, not just profit margins. journalism is one of them.
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