coalesce

The environmental community, reeling from the failure of cap and trade, needed a fight around which to coalesce.
Keystone Pipeline Is D.C.’s Dumbest Debate|Claire Casey|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Individual tales of loss can generate mass action only if they are able to coalesce into a collective narrative.
Forget Kim Jong Un—China’s New Favorite Dictator Is Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko.|Kapil Komireddi|January 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
While the opposition to Graham has yet to coalesce around a single opponent, he could be in real trouble if it does.
South Carolina Court Decision Looms Large For 2016|Ben Jacobs|August 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Meanwhile, with or without Lapid, the opposition will finally have the opportunity to coalesce into a common front.
What Went Wrong For Netanyahu|Bernard Avishai|January 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST

If ever there was a chance for the cluster of smaller center-left parties to coalesce around a domestic agenda, it's now.
Bread And Butter Take Center Stage|Shira Herzog|October 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
They therefore determined to coalesce with another body of Tories of whom Sancroft was the chief.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
Then they coalesce and the whole ice body becomes strewn with rock dbris.
Mount Rainier|Various
When words equivalent to each other coalesce, and become compound; it is evident that the composition is of a very peculiar kind.
Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham
The Italian contribution to the book tends to coalesce either with the general or the personal elements.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
The two nuclei come into contact and coalesce, and we have thus a new cell with its sixteen chromosomes complete.
Parallel Paths|Thomas William Rolleston

British Dictionary definitions for coalesce

coalesce

/ (ˌkəʊəˈlɛs) /

verb

(intr) to unite or come together in one body or mass; merge; fuse; blend

Derived forms of coalesce

coalescence, nouncoalescent, adjective

Word Origin for coalesce

C16: from Latin coalēscere from co- + alēscere to increase, from alere to nourish

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