convergence
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I flippantly wrote of science fiction’s reliance on suspension of disbelief, but man-machine convergence doesn’t, as far as I can see, require any suspension of basic physical laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Its narrow, "cheetah-like" build therefore appears to be a vivid case of evolutionary convergence, in which unrelated species independently develop similar features because they face comparable environmental pressures.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
On top of that, Kedrosky is alarmed, he said, at the model convergence and diminishing returns of large language models’ performance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Instrumental convergence is the stuff on which nightmares are built, although I remain skeptical simply because of the overwhelming imperative of governments to protect their own prerogatives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Most of the modern music in which convergence is most active has thrived in a relatively prosperous, educated milieu, dominated by the United States and Europe, where something approaching a cultural consensus exists.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Those convergences refer to Washington's sudden policy shift in engaging Russia directly.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025
These data enabled the team to analyse the evolutionary trajectories of these two species in order to detect possible convergences, i.e. cases of independent evolution of similar morphologies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023
“We’re not going to see the Western democracies try to remove India from their strategic calculus, especially in terms of countering China. The strategic convergences are too strong,” he added.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
The side-by-side visits of two East Asian leaders to two warring European capitals are just the latest in a growing list of convergences between Atlantic and Indo-Pacific alliances and rivalries.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
How are we to explain these and hundreds of similar phonetic convergences?
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
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