How to Use confluence in a Sentence

confluence

noun
  • What to know about this cosmic confluence.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The album is a confluence of country, pop and shades of hip-hop.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The confluence of factors could lead to some sort of a breakthrough.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The two-story floor plan is a confluence of wood, glass and concrete.
    Jack Flemming, latimes.com, 19 June 2018
  • The first thing that edged out of this woodwork is the odd confluence of these pitches.
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Two months in, this confluence of interests has come apart, and so has the cease-fire.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Then, in 1963, came a confluence of events that would change his life.
    Daniel Lewis, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The issue stems from a confluence of events, much of it tied to the pandemic.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • So, for many reasons, there was a confluence of events that that led to that record slipping through the cracks.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 15 July 2024
  • The researchers noted that this could have been due to a confluence of factors.
    Julia Zorthian, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Biden was plain-spoken and direct about the confluence of crises the nation faces.
    Jonathan Lemire, ajc, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Sunlight makes the confluence of rivers sparkle, as if jewels had been tossed across the water.
    Mike Belleme, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • There could be a confluence of events helping fuel that brand of across-the-board thievery.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • The confluence of those two events possibly even heals Kendall — at least for now.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The confluence of their lives has added to the easy pairing of two young French up-and-comers.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • And in a rare confluence, the country may also be the best place to look for solutions.
    Amit Katwala, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The confluence of events is really what put the strain on the entire supply chain.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The social self of centuries, formed at the confluence of region, class, caste and tribe, was still strong in me.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • That scene is the confluence of everything.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The result of this confluence of events is a surge in student loan delinquencies.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • According to the health experts, a confluence of factors have led to the surge.
    Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2021
  • There’s a confluence of reasons why longevity gyms are emerging.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • This was a perfect confluence of what voters were feeling at the time, about that issue and about the race.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, there’s something to the confluence of Danish culture and tech roots.
    Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The rising cost can be attributed to a confluence of factors.
    Claire Malon, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That confluence and flurry of memories are part of the before.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The confluence mirrors Rocky’s own decade-plus career.
    Jeff Ihaza, VIBE.com, 2 June 2026
  • While apart, their working lives — his at sea, hers on land — speak to a confluence of the elemental and the man-made.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Naiman said that fur more broadly points to a confluence of politics and personal style.
    Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But Zandi thinks the confluence of factors will cause the Fed to move more quickly.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2025

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