confluence
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The scramble for safety was attributed to a confluence of factors suddenly plaguing the market all at once.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
An expert explains how a confluence of high tide cycles could peak around Thanksgiving and Christmas along coastal California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
A confluence of market quirks blamed for deepening the recent selloff may be running out of steam, stirring hope that the rise in bond yields will also peter out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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
Farther along we come to the confluence of the Little Delaware and the West Branch, and Bando takes out his compass and map again.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
The book revels in the confluences, ironies, overlaps and buried stories of the Jewish South.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
And he came out into a great amphitheater into which jutted huge towering corners of a confluences of intersecting canyons.
From Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
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