How to Use conglomerate in a Sentence

conglomerate

1 of 3 adjective
  • Gautam Adani, whose conglomerate sprawls from ports to coal mines to food, has seen his personal wealth more than double, to some $32bn.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2020
  • In 2018 the stock was tossed out of the Dow Jones Industrial average. Culp — who previously ran a mini-conglomerate, Danaher — has spun off or sold many units.
    — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The volcanic and conglomerate rocks draw lots of climbers who take on numerous and varied routes, from short and easy to long and technical, with vertical faces and steep overhangs.
    — Brian E. Clark, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019
  • One of the latest and most beloved mega retailers to host a Deals Day of its own is Target, the hip big-box shop of its conglomerate neighbors.
    — Avery Felman, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • For the better part of the past two years, the company has had to deal with a looming takeover threat from French media conglomerate Vivendi, which has slowly been buying shares of the game publisher.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Erik Hellum has also been appointed as COO of the radio and media conglomerate’s local media.
    — Billboard, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Reuters reported this week that the firm sent a letter to investors calling for a potential breakup of the Seven & i Holdings conglomerate or other moves to increase the company’s share price.
    — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • The lack of fact-checking in corporate publishing remains a scandal, but there are few signs that any conglomerate publisher plans on making the expensive decision to apply basic scrutiny to its books any time soon.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 June 2020
  • Other critical reviews of the Astro have focused on Amazon’s slow creep into our private spaces with smart devices, or on the banal evilness of the mega-conglomerate behind the product.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 1 Oct. 2021
  • In a shareholder vote over competing slates of directors, Elliott narrowly edged out French media conglomerate Vivendi .
    — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • The cement maker, a unit of conglomerate Salim Group, has shuttered majority of its 10 plants in Citeureup area as a result of the partial lockdown.
    — Tassia Sipahutar, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2020
  • The move deepened Bayer’s commitment to a conglomerate model -- combining crop science, pharmaceuticals and consumer health under one roof -- at a time when many rivals have rigorously sharpened their focuses.
    — Jef Feeley, Bloomberg.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Sports franchises are increasingly conglomerate in nature and often include multiple sports teams, a stadium or arena, ancillary property development, sports adjacent businesses, and more.
    — Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Piramal Enterprises by creating a diversified financial services conglomerate and a leading pharma player.
    — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Her approach combines catalog ownership, touring, streaming, and direct sales, creating a conglomerate effect with herself as the charismatic CEO and her superfans as loyal, repeat customers.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Acquired by conglomerate Unilever in 1961, the company began to see increasing competition from Mister Softee and other rivals.
    — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2020

conglomerate

2 of 3 verb
  • Buffett has lived in for decades and run right past the headquarters of his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate on the way downtown.
    — Josh Funk, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • At a societal level, cars can track where people go en masse, what roads are important, when people conglomerate, and the health of infrastructure.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 8 July 2024
  • Or will conglomerate Waystar fall into new, foreign hands, leaving billions in the Roy family’s pockets but no control?
    — Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz, 26 May 2023
  • Then there was Merck, the pharmaceuticals conglomerate whose association with the Nazis may have been the most lurid of them all.
    — Joshua Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021
  • And then there is Secret, the women’s deodorant brand of the consumer goods conglomerate Procter & Gamble.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Koch Industries conglomerate that his father founded in 1940.
    — Lisette Voytko, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • And conglomerate Dalian Wanda is currently developing one of the largest movie production facilities in the world in Qingdao.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 May 2017
  • Australian sites will get paid for appearing in Facebook News, giving that publishing conglomerate a revenue stream independent of the problematic display-ads business.
    — Rob Pegoraro, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Immediate recognition is the reason conglomerates overwhelmingly choose pre-existing fashion labels as vehicles for young talent instead of backing new ventures.
    — Alexander Fury, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Within that arena, Remy hopes to position Atlas brands as a bastion of independence within an ever-conglomerating industry.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The pair’s first extravehicular activity—as astronauts call such trips outside their spacecraft—turned up mostly breccias, conglomerate rocks created by the meteorite impacts that actually formed most lunar mountains.
    — Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • To that, Yeon said Amorepacific, a South Korean cosmetics conglomerate that funded his research, intends to use this technology to test the effectiveness of their skin care products.
    — Karen Kwon | Inside Science, ABC News, 18 July 2021
  • The quickly conglomerating media industry led Henson to consider corporate partnerships to assist with his goal of further expanding the Muppet media universe.
    — Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Ultimately, Chalone fell on hard times financially, and in 2004 it was purchased by spirits conglomerate Diageo, which has since gotten out of the wine business altogether.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021
  • One possibility is that mergers among insurers will induce doctors and hospitals to conglomerate as well, which in turn will encourage greater consolidation in the insurance sector, said Diana Moss.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Hitachi Also on Goldman’s list is conglomerate Hitachi which operates in industries ranging from power and renewable energy to railway services and healthcare products.
    — Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2024
  • New disclosure filings show that the free masks came from the government of Taiwan and its diplomatic office in Chicago, a Chinese auto parts conglomerate, a major apparel company and the state’s largest health insurer.
    — USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
  • Rakuten is a global e-commerce and internet services conglomerate headquartered in Japan and getting deeper into entertainment content creation, marketing and distribution businesses.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The combination, which has been in the cards for years, would minimize competition between the two companies and create the world’s largest chemicals conglomerate with around 1 trillion yuan in annual revenue, equivalent to about $153 billion.
    — Martin Mou, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021

conglomerate

3 of 3 noun
  • Our small company must compete with the big conglomerates.
  • Foran was tapped to take the wheel, and steer the conglomerate back on course.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The conglomerate may not have been a bad idea so much as a premature one.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 June 2026
  • India’s own conglomerates likely make up a large part of this.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Buffett has built up the conglomerate over the past 60 years.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And in the 1960s, the conglomerates were able to march in.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • As for who will take over Armani’s conglomerate, that remains to be seen.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025
  • On the other side of the gate and the entire wall is a conglomerate of the richest people.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • On the other side of the gate and the entire wall is a conglomerate of the richest people.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • On the other side of the gate and the entire wall is a conglomerate of the richest people.
    — Jack Hannah, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
  • And if big media and tech conglomerates want to keep dollars flowing, these rules will likely get in the way.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 July 2023
  • But trusting a conglomerate like Amazon with that sort of power might not sit right with many.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
  • The world is de-conglomerate-izing.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • The firm has not touched its shares since the 2015 merger that formed the food conglomerate.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But those are not the oil-to-telecom conglomerate's biggest worries.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Buffett, even at his advanced age, has likely stayed active at the conglomerate.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The firm upgraded the fast-food conglomerate to outperform from in line.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Others are subsidiaries of conglomerates, known as bonyads, that answer to the clergy.
    — Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • The conglomerate held a record cash pile of nearly $400 billion at the end of March.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 2 June 2026
  • Musk would be making SpaceX even more of a conglomerate, and even harder to manage.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • The conglomerate recently announced plans to put itself up for sale.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2025
  • My friend’s family, along with many other distillers, cashed out to conglomerates.
    — Emily Bingham, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But is a new Williams deal in the best interest of York’s growing sports conglomerate?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Berkshire Hathaway was long teased as the conglomerate that couldn’t find anything worthwhile to buy.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • Even at the baseball game, the chairman of the Doosan conglomerate that owns the Bears is set to join as a batter.
    — Justina Lee,lisa Kim, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • Capital can be more nimble than a conglomerate.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Japan is forcing sleepy conglomerates, whose structures protected the elite, to slim down and compete.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • But Kraft Heinz faced near-consistent challenges through its decade as a huge conglomerate.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • If the brand had pursued an exit to a major food conglomerate, its existing team would have lost control of the business.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • As one of the world’s largest spirits conglomerates, the company certainly had access to some choice, well-aged stocks.
    — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026

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