as in confluence
the coming together of two or more things to the same point the conjunction of the two major highways creates a massive influx of cars into the city

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Recent Examples of conjunction Handmade Films will also work in conjunction with MRC on the production. Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025 These diagrams break sentences down into noun phrases and verb phrases and then further subdivide them into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and so forth. Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025 The event is held in conjunction with the San Diego Blood Bank. Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025 Blazy divided his show into three chapters, and this first, called Le Paradoxe, brings power and seduction into conjunction. Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conjunction
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Noun
  • Is the confluence of decreasing interest in alcohol and increasing interest in marijuana making Americans socialize less?
    Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But how rare to get a confluence of real-world events and a buzzy HBO Sunday-night show that gives Angelenos heartfelt cause to celebrate ourselves.
    Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Her own thinking and that of Hollub—the secretary, the CEO— were in convergence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The interchange plan is expected to accommodate developments near the convergence of K-10 and K-7, as planned by the City of Lenexa for the next 35 years.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Simple combinations like 1111, 4444 and 1234 were used to gain access to the messages waiting in the inbox.
    Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The chain started with a single location in Rogers in 2017 and offers more than 20,000 drink combinations.
    John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • SwifDoo also supports merging or splitting files, batch processing multiple documents, and converting PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and image formats.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Additionally, as the district considers closing and merging schools, Cassellius said the money could support new or improved recreational facilities at schools receiving displaced students.
    Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement In April 2021, Min Aung Hlaing personally agreed at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting to the Five Point Consensus intended to end the bloodshed and open a path toward dialogue.
    Kim Aris, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
  • At Tesla’s annual meeting on Thursday, shareholders voted in favor of giving CEO Musk a gargantuan, record-shattering pay package that could give him stock worth $1 trillion after several years.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025

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“Conjunction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjunction. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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