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conglomerate

[kuhn-glom-er-it, kuhng-, kuhn-glom-uh-reyt, kuhng-] / kənˈglɒm ər ɪt, kəŋ-, kənˈglɒm əˌreɪt, kəŋ- /




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One landmark decision allowed Exxon to pursue claims that it owned refineries and gas stations seized by Cuba’s government, rejecting a sovereign-immunity defense by Cuba’s state-run conglomerate CIMEX.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

AliExpress, which is owned by the Chinese tech conglomerate Alibaba, has 193 million users in Europe, more than fellow Chinese online retailers Shein or Temu.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

To win support, the conglomerate has pledged to release at least 30 films a year that will remain in theaters for a minimum of 45 days.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Kioxia started life as Toshiba Memory, a pioneering memory chip business that Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, then in dire financial straits, sold off in 2018.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 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

Despite the court freeze, Paramount and Warner Bros insist that combining their operations is essential to compete with digital streaming giants and tech 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

Along with “large conglomerates that are materially involved” in optics and photonics, there are also “peer plays” held by the fund, he noted.

From MarketWatch May 15, 2026

Stocks in the other big three K-pop conglomerates also fell.

From BBC Apr. 21, 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

"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

"We's on de Monarch an' we's done left dem cantankerous conglomerated disputatious Mosquitoes down on de ice!" exclaimed Washington, coming in to see how his master was.

From Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Rockwood, Roy

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

In an era when most multinational firms have given up their old conglomerating ways, Jardines retains a panoply of seemingly unconnected businesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Wood, William Charles Henry




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