How to Use amalgamate in a Sentence

amalgamate

verb
  • They amalgamated the hospital and the university.
  • Add the mezcal and amaro and stir them in to amalgamate.
    Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Toss to combine and mash lightly with a fork to amalgamate.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • And that’s a sign of trauma and stress, when family groups amalgamate into a mega-herd for safety.
    National Geographic, 5 July 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scott Gomez grew up among the diverse cultures that amalgamate around Anchorage.
    John Marshall, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2021
  • Herbaceous first nose, though amalgamating with sweet red cherries and slight mint aromas.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The strange, cruel monster of Rome can never amalgamate with the beautiful form of America.
    Jared A. Goldstein, Slate Magazine, 14 Feb. 2017
  • 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 amalgamated Frankenstein jolted awake to get all murderous.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 7 June 2018
  • 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
  • The president has also faced calls to split the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in two, and to amalgamate some smaller departments.
    S'thembile Cele, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Here’s where all that market research and product understanding will amalgamate.
    Anita Raj, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • To better appeal to corporations, Palantir about two years ago began rolling out a new product, Foundry, that amounts to off-the-rack software that amalgamates and crunches data across an organization.
    Eliot Brown, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
  • For three decades, Murakami has acted like a giant computer into which choice aspects of Japanese and Western culture and history have been fed, amalgamated, and churned back out.
    Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
  • In his closing statement, Key continued this line of attack by arguing that to not prosecute abolitionists would be to hand the country over to those who wish to amalgamate the races and offer equal citizenship to people of color.
    Bennett Parten, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Europe, over the last century, has amalgamated its power systems to the point where the European grid now exchange’s electricity, literally across the continent, north, south, east, west.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Multi-agent models amalgamate vast amounts of data, drawing patterns and insights to help businesses make informed decisions.
    Gary Fowler, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Alaska would join a growing group of states amalgamating data in the hopes of improving transparency about health care service charges and using it to develop policy recommendations designed to control the costs of health care.
    Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • But in the finale, both these women were powerfully amalgamated into Big Little Lies' big-picture theme of female solidarity.
    Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Apr. 2017
  • 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 company is building a generative A.I. platform to amalgamate health care information.
    Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • Local World bundled together over 100 papers, and by amalgamating back-office work, cutting reporting jobs and investing more in digital media, managed to remain profitable despite continuing falls in print circulation.
    The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • With the sunset of the pandemic, educators now perceive that education in a post-pandemic world must amalgamate the advantages of online instruction with important pedagogical goals associated with in-person teaching.
    Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 20 May 2021

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