confluence
noun
a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like.
confluences
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pluralof confluence.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For Boggs, Baldwin’s nonfiction informed his fiction; there are “continuities and confluences between and across his work in both genres.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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
Men sailing up the Mississippi or other navigable river saw the mouths of tributary streams, but could not tell with out investigation whether they were confluences or mere inlets, creeks.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
