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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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Its distinctive coaxial rotor system eliminates the need for a tail rotor while improving maneuverability.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
8 June 2026
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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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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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The Esports World Cup 2025, which was the event’s second year, reached 750 million viewers worldwide and generated 350 million hours watched, with peak concurrent viewership of nearly 8 million during the League of Legends at EWC ’25 tournament.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
18 June 2026
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In the month since her Netflix debut, viewers have dissected everything about the now 21-year-old Shirilla, who is currently serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life in prison—her first parole hearing is scheduled for September 2037.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
18 June 2026
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The crew coordinated with air traffic control and performed a go-around, which involves aborting a landing attempt and climbing away from the runway, to avoid an American Airlines plane that was departing from an intersecting runway, The Guardian reported.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
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Neither American Airlines nor the FAA confirmed the details of the other flight involved, but data from FlightRadar24 shows AA3161 taking off from an intersecting runway at the same time DL2351 was preparing to land.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
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But for those of us who love love — who can clock not just the subtle rhythms of the genre but also the personal rhythms of a couple sharing an honest, congruent, life-altering experience — the details matter.—
Hugh Hart,
IndieWire,
23 May 2026
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There isn’t a way to fill that room with something congruent, and then people don’t want to come back.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Convergent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convergent. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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