Verb (used with object) : They voted to merge the two branch offices into a single unit.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : This stream merges into the river up ahead. ,The two firms merged last year.    From Dictionary.com. 

We live in merged/acquired Corporatism and vast monopolies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate committee debates Wall Street reform bill] Reference

Hemant's dad was on cloud nine as his name merged as a winner by Salman Khan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

What happens when corrupt databases are merged, is the corruption compounded, multiplied, squared or merely added to each other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reform Body Attacks 'Database State'] Reference

Then, on one side and the other, she ran along the base of the wall to where its abrupt bulk merged from the softer-lined landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lair] Reference

• The optical scanners used to read absentee ballots have problems when information is merged from the three machines the county uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 2004] Reference

Baucus added that he was ready to fight changes to "the so-called merged bill.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate Finance Committee Approves Health Care Reform 14-9] Reference

There is one that is the so-called merged bill, and that has to be scored before it can go to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009] Reference

The print danced before his gaze: letter rushed into letter, word merged mistily into word, line into line, till all was a grey blur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tell England A Study in a Generation] Reference

I'm still fond of what I called the merged Hulk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Resources] Reference

Many failed funds are "merged" with other funds in the same fund family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Martin: The Case of the Missing Stock Data] Reference

OSDL just shut down and "merged" read: disappeared with some other group.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Little Pony warns me off Linux] Reference

Ya gotta wonder if the Public Option will get into the "merged" Health Care Bill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [House Democrats Plan for Final Bill] Reference

We kind of merged the Canadian market into the U.S. market and looked at it as if it were ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Robert Sidney Smith, January 25, 1999. Interview I-0081. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

In January, the group "merged" with the Saudi al Qaeda chapter, with al-Wahayshi now "emir of the Arabian peninsula.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Yemen's Terror Problem] Reference

Maybe this was Sirsi's plan all along, to kill Dynix by spreading out their customer base when they "merged" Horizon with Unicorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horizon, again] Reference

Arizona, California and Nevada have "merged" somewhat, and you now wouldn't know if you were in Phoenix, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border War: An Arizonan's Perspective] Reference

The company had just been "merged" into Daimler-Benz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheels] Reference

The new "merged" group says the debt was not forgiven.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Channel 9: Local News] Reference

This, ten years or so after AOL "merged" with Time Warner.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year or "merged" with Android.    From Wordnik.com.  [TechCrunch] Reference

IMHO, BB is ultimately going to be bought (or "merged") by A Private bank!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Local free dailies in Odense, Arhus and Aalborg 'merged' with editions of 24timer in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newspaper Innovation] Reference

London Scottish's professional arm "merged" with London Irish but quickly disappeared.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Four hospitals - all created before the NHS - were 'merged' to create one NHS hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

The only difficult question was, apparently, how Prussia was to be "merged" into Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Equipment Corporation (DEC), which was purchased by Compaq, and then Compaq was "merged" with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linux.com - Content Feed] Reference

By Richard Weir Two of the Hub's 14 underperforming schools will be dismantled and "merged".    From Wordnik.com.  [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference

This is what happened when the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives "merged" in 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

That's why Haitians went ahead and kind of merged their beliefs with Catholicism, kind of hiding their traditional beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

"merged" which meant they took over SCO back in 2001/2002.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The merged institutions will mine each other's customer lists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Megabucks Marts Arrive] Reference

After Netscape, he started Healtheon, which merged with WebMD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serial Entrepreneurs] Reference

Last week two huge, inefficient German banks merged into one humongous one.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than Meets The Eye] Reference

The merged entity was renamed "Allfirst," a hybrid title popular with no one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water Is Wide] Reference

But since then, several other pioneers have folded or merged, and many are struggling.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE WI-FI BUBBLE] Reference

His musical world merged emotionally, culturally, historically with a new world out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reliving Her Past] Reference