confluence

It came about through a confluence of circumstances.

But I must consider: What was the mysterious confluence that caused my knee to break at the time Gail’s mother died, bringing Gail and me to one table, in one place, at one time?

“The Office” was such a beautiful and rare confluence of the cast and the time and the format and the writers and everything — it seemed very arrogant to think you could pull that off again.

Experts blame a confluence of factors, including high interest rates, rising construction costs and delays in attracting viable bidders.

For Boggs, Baldwin’s nonfiction informed his fiction; there are “continuities and confluences between and across his work in both genres.”