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confluence

[kon-floo-uhns] / ˈkɒn flu əns /


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“I felt this extraordinary confluence of my passions.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 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

Starbucks Korea said it chose the setting for the "scenic confluence of the Han and Imjin rivers" that offer visitors a "unique place to relax amid nature".

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

She came at last to a confluence of shabby streets which she assumed from the detached quarter of her map was Stockwell.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

In one of pop music’s oddest confluences, future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones sat in on that 1964 recording session, years before the band came together.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 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

I’m going to start thinking of the works that I leave behind as my body — and that’s how I want to be seen, in all of my complexities and hypocrisies and confluences of myself.

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2022

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 Grey, Zane




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