confluence
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“I felt this extraordinary confluence of my passions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
A confluence of pressures have hit stocks in recent weeks, and Thursday’s moves extended a spate of volatility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Experts point to a confluence of factors — and, primarily, that consumers want choices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 5, 2026
This expansionist push brought these cultures into new confluence and conflict.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
It stands to reason, then, that somewhere along that street should be a spot corresponding to the ancient city’s main crossing, the confluence of the Street of the Soma and the east—west-running Canopic Way.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Disasters are real — also, these days, frighteningly common, be they epic confluences of nature and negligence or the murderous and preventable kind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Harel's focus on the confluences of Darwin's life rather than its conflicts offers a refreshing take on his legacy.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2022
So it has a lot of really wonderful confluences.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
Occasions formed confluences with other occasions: social, political, and personal themes that would make "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" more than just a movie.
From Salon ● May 26, 2019
And he came out into a great amphitheater into which jutted huge towering corners of a confluences of intersecting canyons.
From Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
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