merge
verb (used with object)
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
merged
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past participleof merge.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof merge.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
mergeverb (used with object)to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
Example Sentences
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A few years later, Draper & Johnson merged with another firm to form Sutter Hill Ventures, with Draper as president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The newly merged company has high debt, aggressive financial targets, and integration challenges.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Yet as Paramount targets billions in cost cuts across the merged company, staff fear the consolidation will trigger significant job losses at CNN and CBS.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
In 2014, they sold a minority stake in their company to private-equity firm Oncap, which sold that stake a few years later to Golden Gate Capital, in a deal that merged Mavis and Express Oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Riemann merged projective geometry with the complex numbers, and all of a sudden lines became circles, circles became lines, and zero and infinity became the poles on a globe full of numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
