'merges' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the combining of two or more items into one. For example, "The two companies merged to form a larger, more powerful company."
The film merges two Londons, separated by nearly a century, into one film.
When you're watching in the flesh a contentious refereeing decision just merges naturally into the chain of events.
Elisabeth Murdoch is expected to quit the television production company she founded 13 years ago after it merges with two others.
However, Saving Mr Banks strays into dodgy territory when it merges elements of the Mary Poppins story with its author's childhood.
Sardet's book, called Plankton, merges science with art and illustrates what he calls "the irreplaceable beauty and diversity of planktonic life forms", but it comes with a warning that the world's oceans are being changed by climate change and acidification.
That came soon afterwards with a project called Rugball, which captured in impressionistic black and white a bunch of young Nigerians on a beach in Lagos playing the rough-and-tumble hybrid game that merges the rules of rugby, basketball, soccer and even wrestling.
CrowdStrike has developed a cloud-based service that scoops in intelligence about online threats from across the web and merges them with analysis from its own research team.
In the collective consciousness of east-Mediterranean Muslims, the dragon-slaying saint merges with the mysterious figure of al-Khidr, the green man.In countries like Greece where George (and female variants like Georgia) is one of the commonest first names, a big share of the population will be exchanging good wishes or small name-day presents.
And the Senate's Democratic leader, Harry Reid, has already admitted that he cannot bring a bill that merges the output of those two committees to a vote by the full chamber until the autumn.Yet it is the Senate Finance Committee that still offers a chance for sensible and successful health reform this year.
Once the bank merges with a bigger rival, none of Japan's remaining three mega-banks will be stuck with the low capital ratios that have hobbled them over the past few years.
It is now profitable, and bigger cost cuts are expected after Sony Music merges its non-Japanese business with Germany's BMG.
