confluence

The scramble for safety was attributed to a confluence of factors suddenly plaguing the market all at once.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

It blamed an "unusual confluence of developments that has impaired investor confidence in the market for new public offerings".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

“SVB failed as the result of a confluence of vulnerabilities including real but unrealized accounting losses on its securities portfolio that exceeded its capital,” Bowman says when delivering remarks in London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Pythagoras taught that God is a number; Xenophanes that it is a sphere, passionless and consubstantial with all things; Parmenides that it is but the confluence of earth and fire.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In one of pop music’s oddest confluences, future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones sat in on that 1964 recording session, years before the band came together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

My son is a private citizen, but the unusual and violent reaction to his autistic spelling shows similar confluences of eager internet sleuths ready to treat a seven-second clip as a Zapruder film.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2024

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

So it has a lot of really wonderful confluences.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021

The low-lying spaces at the confluences of the rivers, being readily laid under water, have been not infrequently chosen as sites for fortresses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various