confluence
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- noun
- /ˈkɒnfluəns/
- The festival celebrates the confluence of cultures through music, art, and food.
- confluence of events
- confluence of factors
- confluence of interests
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Watch on YouTubeI believe that my whole life has been a confluence of events for this.
- I believe that my whole life has been a confluence of events for this.
- What's actually happened is a confluence of things.
- And, and most of all, I think ideas come from confluence.
- And you might, you just might, find an answer in that confluence.
- So it's a wonderful confluence of the familiar and the deeply mysterious all in one little package.
- So I'd like to talk again next about Filipino cuisine on the other hand, and the confluence that exists in in Philippine cuisine.
- And so the cultural differences that would have been there are now beginning to, to come into confluence.
- So addiction is a confluence of three things, the person, the pain they're going through and the product that they are addicted to.
- So I think that what we have is, is the confluence of everything that allows people to want it all and want it now, and nobody checks them.
- And so maybe we actually have this confluence of issues in our country where we have a very real mental health disaster and emergency.
- And I think the confluence of these two events really underscores and emphasizes the severe gravity of our mental health epidemic.
- And that confluence means they came to play.
- But there is what I think called a kind of confluence of aims.
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The massive demonstrations in April and May 1989 represented the confluence of student demonstrations and urban protests.
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And you had all of this confluence of factors.
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And again, the confluence of different people from all over the world.
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What we have today is a confluence of two things.
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So I want to talk about this confluence of a number of issues.
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I believe that my whole life has been a confluence of events for this.
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And so maybe we actually have this confluence of issues in our country where we have a very real mental health disaster and emergency.
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The unique character of my cheese would result from a confluence of many elements.
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So this confluence of things is really affecting the psyche of the consumer and their attitude about spending.
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Thus, the confluence of race and SES discussed earlier compounds efforts to understand and address inequitable student outcomes.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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To join several groups or parts together to make one stronger unit
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A situation where two things share something or happen together
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Different ideas, methods, or technologies coming together and becoming more similar
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A point where different things or ideas meet
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A process that brings separate people or groups together to form one unit
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The joining of two things to become one, like rivers or ideas
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A group of things joined together as one whole
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The act of joining two or more things into one
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A joining of two or more groups into one
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A time when people or groups join to work together
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Joining two or more things to make one
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The joining of separate parts to form one whole
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A group of things or people gathered together
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The joining of separate people, groups, or companies into one
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A place where rivers, ideas, or cultures come together
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Mixing ideas from different people or fields to make new solutions
A process where things from different directions come closer together
Different parts join to form one whole
Deep joining of two or more things so they mix but keep their own form
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Etymology
Confluence comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and fluere 'to flow', like in the simple English word flow. That's why we call a meeting of people or ideas a confluence — it is when things 'flow together' and join at one point.