coalesce
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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
Still, not long ago, it looked like the team might never coalesce the way everyone envisioned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
European dance music rhythms collide with contemporary hip-hop deliveries and progressive metal bass undertones as if they were always meant to coalesce.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
As soon as there was a centre of gravity, or a ‘home’ in the sound, the relationship between chords also started to coalesce into hierarchies.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
As it all coalesces, there is a sense of visceral, emotional catharsis that could only be achieved at the end of a long journey.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
In any case, it flies by, feeling even shorter yet fuller than its 85 minutes, especially as the imagery coalesces in a neat pull of strings at the end.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
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
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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
Over the past few years, individual investors have coalesced into a market-moving force, upending hedge-fund bets, salvaging struggling companies and sending favored stocks straight to the moon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Among the names the rumor mill has coalesced around at one time or another are Idris Elba, Tom Holland, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jacob Elordi and Callum Turner.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
The production invoked the historical paintings of Hildegard’s visions as well as modern interpretations of them, using videos in which swirling specks of colored light coalesced into figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
Blacks, most of whom did not work for Swift, coalesced in the narrow strip of land just east of the immigrants, forming the community that came to be known as the Black Belt.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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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
It may have represented the end of Massie’s stint in Congress, but it also may represent the coalescing of a new faction in Republican politics.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
Influential forces in Sacramento had begun coalescing behind the then-Bay Area congressman, including some consultants and advisors close to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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
Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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