consolidation

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The firm bought big stakes in United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta and Southwest Airlines in 2016, betting that consolidation had tempered the industry’s tendency for bruising fare wars that squeezed profits.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The next phase of policy might have to be for European and U.S. policy makers to ask China to clean up its own house first and reduce the number of domestic car makers via consolidation.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Opponents fear the consolidation would lead to massive layoffs and diminish the quality of programming that Warner Bros.,

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Placed against other modern threats posed by media consolidation, the notion of whether dyeing iconic black-and-white movies heralded the beginning of cinema’s end seems quaint.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis