conflux
Americannoun
plural
confluxesExample Sentences
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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
Thomas Carlyle once said of man: "Stands he not thereby in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities?"
From Soldier Silhouettes on our Front by Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy)
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