confluence
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Smith is one of many influencers working overtime to distance themselves from the tradwife brand amid a confluence of cultural tipping points.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Tropical storms are not necessarily unusual this time of year for Southern California, but what’s particularly striking about the flooding this week is the confluence of powerful waves on top of higher-than-high tides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
The barrier lake, which formed at the confluence of the Chhochen Khola and Purepu Tsangpo rivers, has already started to overflow, according to China's Ministry of Water Resources.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Experts point to a confluence of factors that contribute to making buying and renting homes so expensive.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
“See the confluence of those two rivers? We land right in between.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
For Boggs, Baldwin’s nonfiction informed his fiction; there are “continuities and confluences between and across his work in both genres.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025
Harel's focus on the confluences of Darwin's life rather than its conflicts offers a refreshing take on his legacy.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2022
I’m going to start thinking of the works that I leave behind as my body — and that’s how I want to be seen, in all of my complexities and hypocrisies and confluences of myself.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
So it has a lot of really wonderful confluences.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
An island of solitude amid the myriad confluences.
From The Invader by Alfred Coppel
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