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confluence

[kon-floo-uhns] / ˈkɒn flu əns /


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A report released this week by JP Morgan’s strategic research team highlighted a confluence of factors related to AI that risk widening gender gaps and could dent the promise of AI.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

The confluence of these three developments — oil above $100 a barrel, a 2-year yield above the fed funds rate, and a bear-steepening dynamic in the bond market — is making some investors nervous.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

But in Mark Oppenheimer’s “Judy Blume: A Life,” her meteoric rise appears fueled by a confluence of fortune that would have been unlikely at any other moment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The hearing in Los Angeles federal court marked the confluence of three orders — two judicial and one executive — that will shape the future of the long neglected campus for decades to come.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Farther along we come to the confluence of the Little Delaware and the West Branch, and Bando takes out his compass and map again.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George