How to Use amalgamate in a Sentence

amalgamate

verb
  • They amalgamated the hospital and the university.
  • Herbaceous first nose, though amalgamating with sweet red cherries and slight mint aromas.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • And that’s a sign of trauma and stress, when family groups amalgamate into a mega-herd for safety.
    — National Geographic, 5 July 2016
  • Scott Gomez grew up among the diverse cultures that amalgamate around Anchorage.
    — John Marshall, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
  • What of our envy for those better-off, impelling us to amalgamate in search of companionship or camouflage, in fear of the night?
    — David Mamet, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Press one more time, with force, flattening the dough lengthwise with the blade of the pastry scraper or your palm to help further amalgamate the butter in the dough.
    — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
  • However, for coaches of the Brazil national team, the dilemma has been how best to amalgamate style and substance.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 6 July 2017
  • Here’s where all that market research and product understanding will amalgamate.
    — Anita Raj, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The amalgamated Frankenstein jolted awake to get all murderous.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 7 June 2018
  • The strange, cruel monster of Rome can never amalgamate with the beautiful form of America.
    — Jared A. Goldstein, Slate Magazine, 14 Feb. 2017
  • Multi-agent models amalgamate vast amounts of data, drawing patterns and insights to help businesses make informed decisions.
    — Gary Fowler, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • His new record charts its moody, introspective emotional odyssey through a soundscape that amalgamates gospel, soul, dancehall, Miami bass, trap, Afrobeats and more.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2025
  • So, out there right now are kids who are steeped in music, steeped in the technology, and their synaptic connections are going to take all of that stuff and synthesize it, amalgamate it, and combine it in some fashion!
    — John Battelle, WIRED, 1 July 1995
  • The 25-year-old has amalgamated his global upbringing, modern life experiences, and keen musical talents to create a unique sound.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Jobs demonstrated the value of amalgamating technology, art, and user-centric design.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Publishing, as far as the book industry goes, is always going to be exciting, as people amalgamate, and just like with bookstores, there are lots of small presses coming along and getting out important work.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
  • One promising way to amalgamate this kind of data is through the establishment of a national Bureau of Cyber Statistics.
    — Raj M. Shah, Foreign Affairs, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The album amalgamates this twilight mood into a cohesive, moody, sometimes melancholic, often achingly pretty 34 minutes of music.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In an effort to break the trend, Dilfer is amalgamating various concepts from his staff and creating a functional and distraction-free environment.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • There’s an implicit generalization to this kind of image production and indeed, seen over time, composite portraiture would become a way to amalgamate and assess an entire culture, even an era.
    — Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The comedian curls the viewer into the drama of his own debasement, Limon theorized, and the relationship is christened, if the joke works, with a laughter that amalgamates the many into one.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Known then for crafting music that amalgamated early dubstep, soul samples and snippets of his own eerie vibrato, Blake quickly ascended as an underground sensation.
    — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The partnership aims to amalgamate marketing touchpoints for DXL, which had previously used various technologies to do the same job.
    — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The story is essentially the same as in the film, though reducing the number of dinner guests from 17 to 12 involves amalgamating some characters into single roles.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 29 July 2016
  • Since the coming of Thriller, Michael Jackson took on the task of amalgamating his music videos with cinematic vignettes, as evidenced in works that followed the record-breaking film.
    — Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Closures are part of an ongoing effort to shutter, amalgamate or repurpose campuses throughout the district in response to a precipitous decline in enrollment.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • Closures are part of an ongoing effort to shutter, amalgamate or repurpose campuses throughout the district in response to a precipitous decline in enrollment.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 12 June 2026
  • Closures are part of an ongoing effort to shutter, amalgamate or repurpose campuses throughout the district in response to a precipitous decline in enrollment.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 28 May 2026
  • Closures are part of an ongoing effort to shutter, amalgamate or repurpose campuses throughout the district in response to a precipitous decline in enrollment.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • As with Gvasalia’s Vetements show (which is tomorrow), the next Balenciaga public unveiling is to be amalgamated with the women’s show.
    — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018

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