confluence
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It makes about as much sense as Tommy, a human, realizing he is somehow one of Vision’s sons due to a confluence of magic and circumstance.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
The scramble for safety was attributed to a confluence of factors suddenly plaguing the market all at once.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 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
It ended up in a narrow gorge south of the confluence of two rivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
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 Alfred Coppel
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