Example Sentences

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Disasters are real — also, these days, frighteningly common, be they epic confluences of nature and negligence or the murderous and preventable kind.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

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

Occasions formed confluences with other occasions: social, political, and personal themes that would make "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" more than just a movie.

From Salon • May 26, 2019

Here, with abounding confluences of onion, Whose vastitudes of perfume tear the soul In wish of the not unpotatoed stew, They float and fade and flutter like morning dew.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 by Various