confluence
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“I felt this extraordinary confluence of my passions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
This expansionist push brought these cultures into new confluence and conflict.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Experts point to a confluence of factors, and primarily that consumers want choices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Starbucks Korea said it chose the setting for the "scenic confluence of the Han and Imjin rivers" that offer visitors a "unique place to relax amid nature".
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 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
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
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
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