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coalesce

[koh-uh-les] / ˌkoʊ əˈlɛs /


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She is concerned, however, that it will be difficult for voters to coalesce around any new candidate in just three months.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Steinhauser said he expected Paxton’s campaign to “recalibrate a little bit on focus and messaging for the general election” and coalesce Republican voters.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

I fear these factors will coalesce to make an eventual market downturn even more painful than it would be otherwise.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Party leaders did coalesce behind one of the Democrats running to replace Pelosi, Scott Wiener, a liberal state senator who is vying be the first openly gay person to represent San Francisco in Congress.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 2026

Shifting shadows started at last to coalesce, and after a while my eyes became accustomed to the gloom, and I could see.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

Mr. Clayton’s “Finding Ways,” whose triumphant melody coalesces from a loose geometry of intervals, and which relies on tension-and-release, suggests the architecture and motion of music by pianist Andrew Hill, another 1960s Blue Note hero.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 25, 2025

Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, who often performs strongly early in sprint weekends before the natural order coalesces later on, was third fastest, 0.386secs off the pace.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2025

“Emilia Pérez” coalesces in unpredictable ways, making perfect sense even as its audacious ambitions should seem out of reach.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2024

The movie can be confusing as the parallel realities become ever more complex, but it eventually coalesces into a poignant tale about the stories we tell ourselves in order to deal with traumatic events.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2024

The group coalesces around the front-runners as Frederick and his pursuers get to their feet, all of them pasted with snow.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

With roots dating to 19th century European theorists like Max Weber and Émile Durkheim, sociology coalesced professionally in America during the Progressive Era.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Cabinet reshuffles require parliamentary approval -- although lawmakers have largely coalesced around Zelensky since Russia's invasion, and do not typically block his agenda.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

Toward the end of 2020—with Covid having pushed everyone into their respective video chat boxes—a group coalesced around Dario to break off and form their own company.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

The fog coalesced around the summits, with sunset’s final rays transforming them into a gracefully undulating landscape of golden gauze.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 28, 2025

Had it been weaker, however, nothing would have coalesced.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Activists across the U.S. are coalescing around concerns about AI-related job losses, data-center sprawl and AI-fueled cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

A battle between gold bugs and bullion bears appeared to be coalescing around the $4,000 an ounce mark on Tuesday, as the precious metal is on track to register its worst quarter in 13 years.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

Though tech funders appear to be coalescing around the Silicon Valley mayor, he is “not going to come out of the gate lighting the campaign on fire because no one knows him,” Acosta said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2026

At another, the brand's logo transforms into people's arms, before these morph into a coalescing swirl of bodies.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2025

For instance, this one, now, coalescing in the air like a queer humidity.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen




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