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Recent Examples of convergent
The winter conditions also change significantly along this 145-mile stretch, beginning with freezing temperatures in Bellingham, snow accumulation in the Skagit Valley’s convergent zone and rain throughout the greater Seattle area, often with heavy accumulations that can cause on-road flooding.
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Crai S Bower, Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
For Conway Morris, human-level intelligence is a convergent trait that might well appear again given the right conditions.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
Reverse faults, found at convergent boundaries, are responsible for the most powerful quakes—megathrust events—often exceeding magnitude eight and accounting for the majority of global seismic energy release.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
While social traits appear to be convergent among different species here on Earth, there’s also no reason to think that something similar would not happen elsewhere in our great cosmic beyond, Bryson argues in her Reykjavik talk.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Crai S Bower, Outside, 18 Dec. 2025
For Conway Morris, human-level intelligence is a convergent trait that might well appear again given the right conditions.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
Reverse faults, found at convergent boundaries, are responsible for the most powerful quakes—megathrust events—often exceeding magnitude eight and accounting for the majority of global seismic energy release.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
While social traits appear to be convergent among different species here on Earth, there’s also no reason to think that something similar would not happen elsewhere in our great cosmic beyond, Bryson argues in her Reykjavik talk.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convergent
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The caliber is worth spotlighting, too, with some 301 parts, including two fast-rotating coaxial barrels that provide a 72-hour power reserve.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
31 Mar. 2026
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Inside, the JBuds Open feature dual coaxial drivers, pairing 35mm and 12mm units.—
Christian de Looper,
PC Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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There were four short docs released under the SNL50 banner, plus Questlove’s Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music and Brent Hodge’s Downey Wrote That, all on Peacock and boasting myriad overlapping talking heads, filming locations and generally celebratory approaches to the beloved sketch show.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2026
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In the past couple years, AI has permeated the music industry in several overlapping but distinct ways.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
27 Mar. 2026
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Much Democratic rhetoric has elided the nuances of these concurrent truths.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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In that case, prosecutors are recommending concurrent sentences of life without parole for the first-degree murder conviction.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Beef takes off from there, laying out intersecting circles of power and competition.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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The result is a potentially perfect storm of intersecting factors that could pop the artificial intelligence industry bubble.—
Rafi Schwartz,
TheWeek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The dynamics by category, though, are much less congruent, with the only category to jump double-digits being fragrance in the mass market while consumers in makeup, for example, seem to be trading up.—
James Manso,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Attendance has been lower in recent years, congruent with public sentiment, but team personnel appeared to outnumber fans this year.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Convergent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convergent. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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