agglomerates 1 of 2

noun

plural of agglomerate
as in assortments
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things the Holy Roman Empire was an ever-varying agglomerate of central European states that managed to survive for 1,000 years

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agglomerates

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verb

present tense third-person singular of agglomerate
as in rounds
to form into a round compact mass breakfast cereal consisting of agglomerated clusters of wheat, rice, and nuts stays crunchy in milk

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for agglomerates
  1. assortments
  2. rounds
  3. varieties
  4. rolls
  5. medleys
  6. balls
  7. jumbles
  8. clumps
Noun
  • After that, new products and assortments will be locally designed, developed and even manufactured in China.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Burlington has also taken steps to reduce its weather sensitivity, including strengthening its home products assortments.
    — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of assortments
Verb
  • Tyson Bagent is Williams’ usual backup, while the journeyman Keenum rounds out the depth in the room.
    — Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Hyatt Regency Aruba rounds out its culinary offerings with a juice bar and pizza truck on the beach, a breakfast buffet, an outdoor café, and a pier serving cocktails and light snacks.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of rounds
Noun
  • Picking up her weekly shopping, pensioner Ute Istock quips that the choice of apple varieties is as broad as that of candidates on the ballot sheets in last month's city election — adding that this is not necessarily a good thing.
    — Esme Nicholson, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The place back in 2013 received high praise in Saveur magazine for its pies, 20 different varieties.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of varieties
Verb
  • Maine-style lobster rolls traditionally consist of cold lobster meat, either tossed in mayo or served with mayo on the side.
    — Sadie Chafe, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Accusations of fraud have been the reasoning for doge’s evisceration of the federal workforce, ice’s occupation of Minneapolis, and, just last week, the removal of three-quarters of a million people from the Affordable Care Act rolls.
    — Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of rolls
Noun
  • Lowlights included uninspiring medleys.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • For the elder millennials, the bittersweet spot was the medleys of older Kanye cuts released from 2004 to 2016 (think The College Dropout to The Life of Pablo).
    — Adelle Platon, VIBE.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of medleys
Verb
  • Bassey signs, Ike balls out An hour after the Warriors officially signed reserve center Charles Bassey to a one-year deal, Graham Ike did his best to show that the backup center position should still be considered in flux.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 10 July 2026
  • The second and third outs were called third strikes, both of them initially balls before All-Star catcher Realmuto challenged through the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), or so called robot umpires, that will be used in the regular season for the first time this year.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of balls
Noun
  • Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
    — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of jumbles
Verb
  • Dividing clumps every few years in early spring also maintains their vigor.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
  • Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
    — Allison DeAngelis, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of clumps
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“Agglomerates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agglomerates. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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