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confluent

adjective as in meeting

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In contrast, Americans have viewed this year’s confluent catastrophes of a deadly pandemic and economic nosedive through a political and cultural kaleidoscope, with little sense of collective grief or sacrifice.

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“At some point, we’re going to have a confluent epidemic in the U.S.,”

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And unlike other links, which offer an array of difficulty, Shinnecock's layout is confluent, each hole as hard as the last.

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There are, of course, many confluent factors – bias, rampant harassment, lack of mentorship – that contribute to this widening gap, but one stands out: caregiving.

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The confluent streams of inquiry function as a parallel, related, pool of ideas, which may or may not be useful to a person sitting in the darkened theater.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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