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noun

synergy

the combined effect of collaboration producing a result greater than individual efforts

In a sentence

Six example sentences with synergy, each labelled with its topic.

  • Merging the two firms produced real synergy: the delivery fleet filled its empty return trips with the other one's parcels.

    Business

  • The two drugs showed unexpected synergy, clearing the infection at doses that neither alone could touch.

    Medicine

  • Neither guard averaged twenty points alone, but their synergy on the pick and roll produced thirty-four between them nightly.

    Basketball

  • The two founders had real synergy: one could sell an idea and the other could build it before the demo.

    Startups

  • Tomato and basil show a synergy that neither has alone, which is why the pairing survives on every menu.

    Cooking

  • The two enzymes work with a synergy that puzzled the lab, breaking down cellulose faster together than the sum of each alone.

    Science

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