amalgamated

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“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Nesbitt said the adult and youth services were being amalgamated to ensure those seeking help did not find themselves on a "waiting list cliff edge" when they turn 18.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2025

I also think this story is about something much bigger than one oddball amalgamated WASP-Jewish-Irish family, although it’s fair to say that my family’s peculiar qualities are distinctively American, and more than a little symbolic.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2023

This museum was founded in 1863 and amalgamated with the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum in 1902.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2023

At the time, however, it seemed to me that in the Chief all the most photogenic features of Buck Jones, Ken Maynard, and Tom Mix had been smoothly amalgamated.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger