How to Use consolidation in a Sentence

consolidation

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  • Other than that there is of course consolidation [in the industry].
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But a consolidation likely would preserve store workers’ jobs and leave stores’ names unchanged, Gilpatrick said.
    — oregonlive, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Goods flow to consolidation centers where their 3PL partners scan the parts into a container.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • So Born says the two paths to memory consolidation most likely complement each other…with sleep putting waking memories in their proper place.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The act allows borrowers to split their loans based on the initial amount each owed into two separate federal direct loans that will have the same interest rates as the joint consolidation loan.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2022
  • How is consolidation out of the U.S. affecting your businesses?
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
  • But again, all this consolidation leaves him with just a third of the vote in a head-to-head matchup with Trump.
    — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • At the height of the writers strike, the WGA called for the end of such media consolidation.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 13 July 2024
  • There has been a ton of consolidation over the last couple of decades.
    — Joe Mazur, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Sony might be king of the video game hill, but that’s not shielding it from the wave of consolidation that has hit the industry in 2024.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The numbers are likely to have changed since the consolidation of each field.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Car loan consolidation is the process of taking out a new loan to pay off the existing loans for both cars.
    — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The consolidation gets even more extreme on the shelves of these grocery chains.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There will be consolidations and things like that, but at the end of the day, that demand is going to continue to be there.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • With the question of venue now settled, Simms is poised to soon rule on the consolidation dispute.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 7 Oct. 2024
  • After a judge ruled in July that the district could start work on the consolidation, offers for sites for a new high school flew in.
    — al, 14 Dec. 2022
  • There is no systemic risk, but there is a risk on consolidation.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • On the flip side, are there Republicans who just will not be part of that consolidation?
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • This, of course, doesn't mesh well in the age of IP consolidation, as TV shows and movies have been scattered across a dozen different platforms.
    — Jason Cohen, PCMAG, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Instead, in response to an outcry from parents opposed to the move, the board voted to drop the consolidation plan and rebuild Reynolds.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In a consolidation move six years in the making, ABC Signature is no more.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
  • It had already been consolidated once by the state, and now the threat of consolidation loomed again.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Northwest was then the fourth largest US airline, but back then there was far less consolidation in the industry.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • The push to privatized education is one side of this coin, and the other is the consolidation of power in school boards.
    — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Some antitrust experts saw the ruling as a line in the sand that could curb further consolidation in the industry.
    — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • And the rise of streaming has forced consolidation among studios – among those moves Fox was swallowed by Disney.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But if tech’s consolidation over the past 20 years is a warning about what to avoid, Khan looked even further back to find a blueprint for how to evade predictable pitfalls.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 4 May 2023
  • This may be behind the recent wave of consolidation in the oil industry.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Few expect the wave of consolidation to slow anytime soon.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That begged the question of whether the post-pandemic inflation surge was fueled in part by industry consolidation and anticompetitive practices.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2024

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