How to Use merger in a Sentence

merger

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  • If the proposed merger of the two oil companies goes through, it would be bad for the economy.
  • The law firm announced its $50 million merger with one of its competitors.
  • If one or both mergers are approved, the deals would be the largest in years.
    — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The merger would be the first deal under the state’s 2021 COPA law.
    — Rachel Roubein, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • If the answer is yes, the school could be marked for closure or merger.
    — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The paper that came out that year just looked at the final orbit of the two black holes before the merger.
    — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The planned Saks-Neiman Marcus merger seeks to wrest back some control.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 July 2024
  • In many ways, the merger catalyzed Forward Air’s downhill slump over the past year.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 20 June 2024
  • The merger changed everything: the course of the Milky Way’s halo, inner bulge, and flattened disk.
    — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Pyle said the intent of the merger of the two units was to put all asymptomatic veterans in the dining room.
    — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Still, if seen through, the merger will inevitably lead to some changes that current flyers will not like.
    — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The deal is smaller than the mergers that reshaped the airline industry more than a decade ago.
    — David Koenig, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Ok, so all that explains why the merger maybe makes sense from Google’s perspective.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Last year was considered a slow year for mergers, but 2024 is turning out to be even worse.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • With the dissolution of the merger, Adobe was forced to pay Figma a $1 billion breakup fee.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 26 June 2024
  • The Skydance merger, which was formalized last month, is expected to close in the first half of 2025.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • However, the board voted just a year later to pause the middle and high school merger plan.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2024
  • But Heard's Dan Gallagher warns that this won't mean the end of Washington's distrust of big tech mergers.
    — WSJ, 12 July 2023
  • In 2018, Linde and Praxair completed a merger of equals.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
  • But thanks to the Dr Pepper and Keurig merger, coffee is now being sold to hundreds of theaters.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • And do Sprite or 7up or Sierra Mist or Starry really even taste like the merger of these fruits?
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 July 2023
  • The merger, announced late last year, was poised to be one of the largest pharmaceutical deals in recent years.
    — Rebecca Robbins, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • However, Zee has now asked for an extension to the merger.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Otto was one only 20 players to play all 10 years of the AFL’s existence prior to the merger.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • Paramount agreed to a merger with Skydance Media last month.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The deal is just the latest in a series of mergers and acquisitions in the oil industry in recent years.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The merger has been years in the making, with the companies previously agreeing to merge back in 2001.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The merger was completed in March 2021 in an all-stock transaction.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Live Nation disputes those claims, saying that its market share has shrunk since the 2010 merger.
    — Clare Hymes, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This merger is merely the latest frontier for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 9 June 2023

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