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coalesce

[koh-uh-les] / ˌkoʊ əˈlɛs /


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He valued players who had built cohesiveness skating together at last year’s 4 Nations Face-Off, confident they could coalesce into a whole greater than the sum of their parts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

As entertainment media become dominant, they naturally coalesce around formats best suited for the technology and business model.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

We came to Park City to argue, to coalesce around favorites, to hate on the overrated.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026

In the 14 December run-off, voters will have to coalesce around one of these two candidates.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

He thinks: It’s hunger, the fever, I’m imagining things, my mind is forcing the static to coalesce .

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