agglomeration

Example Sentences

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Cities are our greatest invention: an agglomeration, a coming together of individual buildings.

From New York Times

As the antibodies remove clumps of amyloid from brain tissue, the agglomerations may clog blood vessels and lead to “an inflammatory cascade” that increases the risk of life-threatening swelling and bleeding.

From Science Magazine

The people would come, regardless, because the great urban boom of the past 20 years was driven mostly by agglomeration: People moved to coastal cities because that’s where the good jobs were.

From Washington Post

The saga in Welcome, an agglomeration of tumbledown farmhouses and newly built homes roped together by winding country roads, highlights several enduring American loves: guns, conspiracy theories, property rights and fruitless litigation.

From Washington Post

In considering whether these tiny agglomerations of proteins and either RNA or DNA are technically alive, Kooning cited NASA's definition for life: "Life is a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution."

From Salon