as in convergences
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 conjunctions
There’s so much going on this month for stargazers, including great lunar conjunctions and cover-ups.
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
So, what causes conjunctions to take place?
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The moon and Venus’s conjunctions only last for a few hours, while others, such as the planet conjunctions, can last for days or weeks.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2025
So what causes conjunctions to take place?
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
This is one of the month’s best naked-eye conjunctions.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
So, what causes conjunctions to take place?
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The moon and Venus’s conjunctions only last for a few hours, while others, such as the planet conjunctions, can last for days or weeks.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2025
So what causes conjunctions to take place?
—Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Sep. 2025
This is one of the month’s best naked-eye conjunctions.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjunctions
Noun
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Pivot to Asia All of this shapes India’s policy toward China to manage an adversarial relationship with limited cooperation and convergences.—
Shyam Saran,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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But the movie’s more substantial convergences with Polanski’s personal situation are less obvious, though far more deeply rooted in the aesthetic that has governed his directing career.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
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Forgiving spin from a leader who’s cognizant of the plight of his line, which, coming into Sunday’s game, had run out 173 unique combinations, second-most in the NFL, according to the CBS broadcast.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
20 Oct. 2025
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Coach Paul Maurice is mixing and matching and switching and swapping with his makeshift forward lines to find any combinations that might work.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Conjunctions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjunctions. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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