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“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

He was nicely plated all over with a film of mercury, which had amalgamated itself with the metallic surface of the suit.

From The Bramble Bush by Schelling, George Luther

Their time was all too short when the route was again given, and the party with which they had amalgamated proceeded by tourist stages to the dream-region of Rotomahana.

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf

As I had amalgamated Lika Joko with the New Budget, I was legally bound to the contract made with the advertising manager.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry

But the passengers in that car had amalgamated.

From The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur