coalesce

Sensing Takaichi’s vulnerability, opposition parties attempted to coalesce around a rival candidate for prime minister who could have beaten her in the parliamentary vote.

Over time, this material coalesced into solid objects, forming the first meteorites.

Meanwhile, the Brewers are largely a collection of castoffs and unknowns who have somehow coalesced into something greater than their collective pedigrees.

Before adding the stems to that base, I boil them until tender, and they maintain their texture as the eggs they’re captured in cook and coalesce.

While much of the anger has coalesced around Jun's line about China, social media users have also dug up other examples from the series which they view as offensive.