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Still, not long ago, it looked like the team might never coalesce the way everyone envisioned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

His supporting cast of Europe-based almost-stars will need to coalesce big time.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

He said the swarm appeared to coalesce as they flared up and down for several minutes, "forming a distinct triangle before vanishing".

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Party leaders did coalesce behind one of the Democrats running to replace Pelosi, Scott Wiener, a liberal state senator who is vying be the first openly gay person to represent San Francisco in Congress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

A Level Three Awkward Silence began to coalesce around us, like interstellar hydrogen pulled together by gravity to form a new nebula.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

A tense family coalesces around the memorial of its eldest son, cut down in the prime of what seems like an argument-leaden life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Mr. Clayton’s “Finding Ways,” whose triumphant melody coalesces from a loose geometry of intervals, and which relies on tension-and-release, suggests the architecture and motion of music by pianist Andrew Hill, another 1960s Blue Note hero.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

But IndieWire's Caleb Hammond said: "While this version contains its fair share of standout sequences along with Oscar-ready performances, the film never fully coalesces into an effective, singular, emotional narrative."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024

All of it coalesces the sad moral of the story: these people are small.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2023

The group coalesces around the front-runners as Frederick and his pursuers get to their feet, all of them pasted with snow.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Cabinet reshuffles require parliamentary approval -- although lawmakers have largely coalesced around Zelensky since Russia's invasion, and do not typically block his agenda.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

A wary Tinseltown reluctantly coalesced around the Netflix bid, seeing it as the lesser of two evils, but Paramount's willingness to stump up ever greater sums eventually saw the streamer withdraw.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

They coalesced around requiring utilities to pay community solar developers and customers for the electricity they feed to the grid using the same formula they use for people who install rooftop solar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

The production invoked the historical paintings of Hildegard’s visions as well as modern interpretations of them, using videos in which swirling specks of colored light coalesced into figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

Beidleman, Groom, their clients, and two Sherpas from Fischer’s team who had belatedly materialized out of the mist—Tashi Tshering and Ngawang Dorje—had coalesced into a single group.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

It may have represented the end of Massie’s stint in Congress, but it also may represent the coalescing of a new faction in Republican politics.

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

“There were tiny lakes that started collapsing, coalescing and becoming one big, larger lake,” said Haritashya.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Opinion polls bear this out, with more voters saying they are undecided or coalescing behind any of the dozen prominent candidates who have announced bids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

At another, the brand's logo transforms into people's arms, before these morph into a coalescing swirl of bodies.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

The core of the group coalescing around the US space effort shared an office with Katherine, ate sandwiches with her during lunch, and bonded with her over an enthusiasm for gust alleviation and wake turbulence.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly