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- noun Plural form of
confluence .
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Examples
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So everything's kind of confluences here and comes together.
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From Black Like You: The cakewalk is one of those intriguing confluences of Black and White American cultures.
Jane Chafin: Breaking the Taboos of Blackface Minstrelsy Jane Chafin 2011
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To be fair, these could all be coincidences, or (more likely) confluences of editorial assignments; but after a while it starts to look like Geoff Johns is responsible for who lives and who dies.
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My plots organic in the sense that they are the confluences of well defined character arcs, with the interaction of the characters changing the nature of the plot as they go along.
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All semi-fascist or third way socialist power confluences.
Wonk Room » Nativist Mark Krikorian Warns That ‘Saddam Hussein’s BFFs Are Coming To Town Near You’ 2009
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But we do seem to have hit one of those rare confluences where a president's desire to be seen and TV's desire to show him are in perfect accord.
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I don't know about that, but I do think it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime confluences of biographer and subject.
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From Black Like You: The cakewalk is one of those intriguing confluences of Black and White American cultures.
Jane Chafin: Breaking the Taboos of Blackface Minstrelsy Jane Chafin 2011
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These complex, unexpected and daily confluences and collisions, and the communities and vernacular cultures they yield, are not easy to understand, manage and interpret, but that's our job--the challenge that we at the Smithsonian Latino Center cherish, relish and wrestle with each day.
Eduardo Diaz: The Complexity of Latino Diversity Eduardo Diaz 2012
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From Black Like You: The cakewalk is one of those intriguing confluences of Black and White American cultures.
Jane Chafin: Breaking the Taboos of Blackface Minstrelsy Jane Chafin 2011
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