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# Merging items
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You might want to merge items together in your workflows. For example when your data contains hundreds of items that you don't want to process individually.
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There are three different use cases for merging items:
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* **Merge items of a single execution**: You can merge all incoming items into a single item using the Item Lists node. Please note that since you are merging different items into a single item the next node in the workflow will now process just that single item.
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* **Merge items returned by different nodes**: If you want to merge items returned by different nodes, use the [Merge node](/integrations/core-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.merge/).
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* **Merge items of different executions**: You can also merge items that get returned in different executions. Refer to this [workflow](https://n8n.io/workflows/1160) to learn how:
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