coalesce

Example Sentences

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As entertainment media become dominant, they naturally coalesce around formats best suited for the technology and business model.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

He said the lack of organised opposition within Iran means that people do not have anyone to coalesce around who presents an alternative to the regime as it stands.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

The episode that he wrote involves an elected government official taking a very public stand against authoritarianism, propaganda and genocide in a speech meant to coalesce the various resistance cells into one Rebel Alliance.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

About 300,000 years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari