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What the polls generally failed to foresee—and arguably shouldn’t have been expected to, given the fluctuating field—was that just enough voters would ultimately coalesce behind Crowley to put him over the top.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026

Steinhauser said he expected Paxton’s campaign to “recalibrate a little bit on focus and messaging for the general election” and coalesce Republican voters.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 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

But Ms. Fridland cautions against assuming that we are destined to coalesce around a common manner of speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

As soon as there was a centre of gravity, or a ‘home’ in the sound, the relationship between chords also started to coalesce into hierarchies.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, who often performs strongly early in sprint weekends before the natural order coalesces later on, was third fastest, 0.386secs off the pace.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025

“Emilia Pérez” coalesces in unpredictable ways, making perfect sense even as its audacious ambitions should seem out of reach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

With “Moving Chains,” she added, “everything that he’s been working on up to this moment coalesces in the piece.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

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

Opposition has also coalesced around religious appeals from a theologically diverse group of residents, leaders and politicians who see data center development as an affront to their most sacred values.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

Among the names the rumor mill has coalesced around at one time or another are Idris Elba, Tom Holland, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jacob Elordi and Callum Turner.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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

The Roman demigods in the forum had coalesced into an angry mob.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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

Economists say Fed officials are coalescing around another rate cut due to continued concern about the health of the jobs market.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 22, 2025

“The Assembled Parties,” the title of Greenberg’s 2013 Broadway play, is an apt metaphor for the challenge that playwright had in coalescing his sparkling chat-fests into satisfying dramas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive of emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright