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Recent Examples of convergent
For Conway Morris, human-level intelligence is a convergent trait that might well appear again given the right conditions.
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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
This area, which falls along the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench or Kuril Trench, is known as a convergent boundary.
—USA Today, 30 July 2025
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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
This area, which falls along the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench or Kuril Trench, is known as a convergent boundary.
—USA Today, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convergent
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Super-low aircraft noise As per Moble Benedict, PhD, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University and CEO of Harmony Aeronautics, the prototype features a proprietary coaxial rotor design.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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From the disc tray to the optical and coaxial digital outputs, Mission claims that every element has been engineered for durability and sonic fidelity.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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In the 1800s, for example, the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel used the term Zeitgeist—the spirit of times—to refer to such ubiquitous and overlapping influences that operate across both macro and micro levels.—
Maria Balaska,
Time,
20 Dec. 2025
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Saylor on Friday imposed a sentence of 12 months concurrent imprisonment on each charge in the newer case, with 11 months to be served concurrently with Tran’s sentence on the last trial and one month consecutive.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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The college has enrolled 3,412 high school students in concurrent credit classes, according to the release.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Production is currently underway on director Sam Mendes’ upcoming intersecting films on The Beatles.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 2026
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Spanning 13 tracks, the album navigates the complexities of the human experience through the intersecting lenses of technology and nature.—
Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
30 Jan. 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 20 Feb. 2026.
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