congeries

[ US /ˈkɔŋdʒəˌɹiz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
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How To Use congeries In A Sentence

  • The country, then a congeries of local economies and cultures, was not seeking what the presidential office was constitutionally designed to offer, namely, energetic leadership in behalf of national initiatives.
  • The snow is melted by the wetness of the leaf, for water destroys it easily, passing through the thin contexture, it being nothing but a congeries of small bubbles; and therefore in very cold but moist places the snow melts as soon as in hot. Symposiacs
  • This is a point that may yet come home to cities that are currently embracing big-box retail development in place of the congeries of small shops and homes that exist now.
  • At last, this paper analyses investment attraction and congeries characteristic of logistics industry of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.
  • Urban is the congeries of population and economy, the urban system of an area has the trait of fractal at different time-space preconditions.
  • Hamal was close to Sol and Terra, but it was also within the boundaries of the great Majoris Congeries, an intragalactic “open” cluster of twenty stars that was home to as many wildly diverse species, from methane-breathers to one winged species that found the atmospheres of stars congenial. THE WOUNDED SKY
  • No one has ever proved that it was a sunkiller bomb that made sigma-1014 Orionis go nova, but the destruction of the hearthworld of the Inshai Compact planets certainly suited the expansionist aims of their old enemies in trade, the "nonaligned" planets of the southern Orion Congeries. The Romulan Way
  • If literary texts cannot claim to embody universal or unmediated or noncontingent truth because everything is an artifact of incidental human activity, I cannot see any logically disallowed reason why one such activity could not be the study of literary texts for their posited "literary" qualities conceived as separate from their status as cultural representations, congeries of historical forces, conduits of sociological information, or whatever else works of literature can be considered good for. Art and Culture
  • As an archetypal constellation, he treats the trickster both as a congeries of abstractions and as a powerful, sometimes inspiring, sometimes destructive, and often possessing psychological force.
  • Magnifying _Microscope_, I found that the tufts or haires of its Wings were nothing else but a congeries, or thick set cluster of small _vimina_ or twiggs, resembling a small twigg of Birch, stript or whitned, with which Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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