confluence

Example Sentences

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“What happened at Music Inn in the 1950s,” he argues, “was a remarkable confluence of place, people, and politics that reflected and augured seismic shifts and conflicts in American culture.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Credit a confluence of several economic and political forces.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was only a matter of time before South Mumbai's skyline would become a rich confluence of Indo-Saracenic, Gothic and Art Deco buildings.

From BBC

The protest outside the Supreme Court was scheduled well before the massacre, but the confluence of events stoked concerns about the increasingly inflammatory language of left-wing social movements generally and transgenderism in particular.

From Washington Times

“It really was a confluence of everything falling into place at the right time,” says Bob Leamon, a solar physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

From Scientific American