confluence

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

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

“We have this rare confluence of events that makes this very possible.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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

It ended up in a narrow gorge south of the confluence of two rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

It stands to reason, then, that somewhere along that street should be a spot corresponding to the ancient city’s main crossing, the confluence of the Street of the Soma and the east—west-running Canopic Way.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

The book revels in the confluences, ironies, overlaps and buried stories of the Jewish South.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

In our way along the shores we crossed several running rivulets of clear cold water, which, from having reeds at their confluences, had not been noticed in our previous exploration in the boat. 

From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by David Livingstone