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conflux

[kahn-fluhks] / ˈkɑnˌflʌks /


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An army of 6,000 construction workers is hard at work at a large site overlooking the conflux of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in the south-western Chinese megacity of Chongqing.

From The Guardian Jun. 4, 2018

Despite war and dereliction, Afghanistan remains a vibrant conflux of ethnic identities.

From New York Times Oct. 3, 2011

The squatter camps of Diepsloot may be an unsightly conflux of scabrous shacks, but to the east, on the other side of a busy avenue, lie the rolling hills of the open veldt.

From New York Times Jun. 2, 2011

This august conflux had for its focus the modest official residence of Premier Baldwin at No. 10 Downing Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was situated about four miles from Bridgewater, near the conflux of the rivers Parrot and Tone?

From Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

The ruder nations had, in their way, however pitiable on the score of magnificence, their grand festive, triumphal, and demoniac confluxes and revellings.

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John




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