In recent years, about a third of BME housing associations have disappeared, merging with other associations, shutting down or being swallowed by larger mainstream organisations.
Likewise some people feel they need secrets, otherwise they fear merging with their spouse.
T-Mobile and 3 have begun merging base stations in a joint venture that will see the number of T-Mobile's masts reduced from 18,000 to 15,000 by the end of this year – a move that will actually result in better coverage.
As data improves, the numbers are merging, suggesting travel advice has become more accurate.
Alasdair McDonnell's South Belfast constituency will be expanded into the Sinn Féin heartland of West Belfast under the boundary review, with the two seats merging in to Belfast South West.
The merging of two separate shots was intended to depict caring Chinese politicians visiting a sweet old lady, but only gave the internet Orwellian nightmares – and obliged the image-makers to undergo some pretty unflinching Maoist self-criticism.
Yeo has already been the subject of highly personalised attacks claiming he is merging his business interests with his politics.
It added weight, however, to the belief that al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, played a central role in al-Qaida after merging his movement with Bin Laden's group in Afghanistan.
I suppose it's just about possible to make out a case for merging the Sunday People (now selling 379,943 copies an issue) with the Daily Star Sunday (301,377 copies).
Anyway, the lesson of newspaper history is that the merging of titles does not result in greatly increased circulation.
The Green New Deal calls for the re-regulation of finance and taxation, cracking down on tax evasion, and de-merging the mega-banks into more containable entities, closer to the real economy, with retail banking separated from high finance.
