confluence
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“I felt this extraordinary confluence of my passions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
A confluence of pressures have hit stocks in recent weeks, and Thursday’s moves extended a spate of volatility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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
Shortly after sunrise we come down the steep road into Livingstonville, a small town of no more than forty houses and stores cozied at the confluence of the Cats- kill and Lake creeks.
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
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
But, as Ellison was fond of saying, “it’s a crazy country” — by which he meant that the diversity of the American experience often occasions unexpected confluences of people and circumstance.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2021
An island of solitude amid the myriad confluences.
From The Invader by Coppel, Alfred
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