were coalescing
- past progressive of coalesce.
Example Sentences
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It was at Ferus that Bengston began to flourish, making a name for himself in the heady days when Pop art and Abstract Expressionism were coalescing into something new, edgy and unexpected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
Obama noted that Reid encouraged him to run for president in 2008, at a time when few thought he could win and many other Democrats were coalescing around Hillary Clinton.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022
The network became a place where many direct services were coalescing — like shopping and delivering food for neighbors, checking in on the elderly, helping people navigate health care or insurance information.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
A bipartisan group of senators were coalescing around a proposal this week that would provide the I.R.S. with an additional $64 billion over eight years, according to a Senate aide.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
Now all the flickerings, of color, time, mind and dimensions, were coalescing into one gigantic vortex, that was a thing neither of time, nor space, nor mind, but all three somehow fused into one....
From Subjectivity by Spinrad, Norman