coalesce
verb (used without object)
to grow together or into one body.
was coalescing
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past progressiveof coalesce.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Ricciardo felt that the team was coalescing around his team-mate Max Verstappen, who was promoted from the junior team in 2016 and won on his debut in Spain.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
Even before then, opinion was coalescing around the idea that the schools should have remained open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
On “Dawn FM,” they land squarely in the window between 1982 and 1984, when New York’s emergent hip-hop production was coalescing into the electro that was streaking its way into pop.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
In the wake of 1979’s Three Mile Island meltdown and Ronald Reagan's full-throated escalation of Cold War tension, a more robust anti-nuclear movement was coalescing in the early 1980s.
From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2017
As Singleton began to amass evidence, and Baird saw that a potential case was coalescing, he let these thoughts percolate.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
