confluence
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The scramble for safety was attributed to a confluence of factors suddenly plaguing the market all at once.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
It blamed an "unusual confluence of developments that has impaired investor confidence in the market for new public offerings".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“A confluence of forces is leading to certain actions and choices that were considered taboo before now becoming acceptable and even celebrated, and then they spread via social contagion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Smith is one of many influencers working overtime to distance themselves from the tradwife brand amid a confluence of cultural tipping points.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 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
For Boggs, Baldwin’s nonfiction informed his fiction; there are “continuities and confluences between and across his work in both genres.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025
My son is a private citizen, but the unusual and violent reaction to his autistic spelling shows similar confluences of eager internet sleuths ready to treat a seven-second clip as a Zapruder film.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2024
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
In our way along the shores we crossed several running rivulets of clear cold water, which, from having reeds at their confluences, had not been noticed in our previous exploration in the boat.
From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by David Livingstone
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