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confluence

[kon-floo-uhns] / ˈkɒn flu əns /


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This confluence of factors coupled with rising wait times and skyrocketing costs of compute are crippling a generation of newcomers trying to compete with Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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

A confluence of the recent World Cup and the upcoming Olympics, a hard-hit Third Street Promenade retail corridor, and increased civic openness to live events in Santa Monica public spaces finally created an opening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Chalk the good times up to a confluence of fortunate events: red-hot artificial-intelligence spending, federal spending and the windfall companies are getting in the form of refunds of some of their past tariff payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Eventually we found a suitable spot, still in Chryse but far from the confluence of the four ancient channels.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

An island of solitude amid the myriad confluences.

From The Invader by Alfred Coppel




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