coalesce

Once they all connected, a scene began to coalesce around an abandoned church in Athens where the band was living on the cheap.

When viewed from several feet away, the dots coalesce into a halation of amorphous color.

But by February 2016, he agreed that concerns had begun to "coalesce" about whether a member of staff was causing deliberate harm.

The themes that have recurrently consumed the 84-year-old — the specter of the Spanish Civil War, daughters estranged from fathers with peculiar histories, the merciless march of time — coalesce into the unhurried, poetically rewarding “Close Your Eyes,” his fourth film in 50 years and likely his last.

Braun saw this as an opportunity to coalesce around shared values and humanity.